Citation

No Author(s) Listed. Buffalo medical and surgical journal 1869; 9(1): e20.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1869)

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PMID

36665690

PMCID

PMC9439173

Abstract

The following case of poisoning by nicotina may perhaps, on ac count of the manner in which it was produced, prove interesting and instructive. I was summoned on the 21st instant to see a little boy, seven years cf age, said to be in a fit. On arriving at fhe house I found him completely insensible, codd, pulseless, with prolonged respiration. On trying to rouse the child, I discovered a blackish patch, about the size of the palm of the hand, on the side of his neck, which I was informed was ringworm, and that an ever-ready old woman prescriber, with which this neighborhood is blessed, had advised the parents to procure an old much-used tobacco pipe, to scrape its interior, and apply the ash, mixed with a little oil, to the abraded surface. In the course of half an hour the child went to his father complaining of a sense of choking, tottering in his gait, and vomiting. I saw him about twenty minutes after, and found him in the state above described. The father assured me the quan tity of ash applied could be held on the point of a tolerable-sized penknife. The treatment pursued was, having the part immediately well washed with soap and water, rousing the little patient, administering ammonia and coffee, with friction to the limbs, &c. Consciousness and reaction soon commenced returning, and in an hour or so the child was out of danger.--Lancet.

Language: en