thirst, and unexplicable torments; the tongue is swolne, the heart faints, the u∣rine is supprest, the chest can scarce performe the office of breathing, the belly is griped, and so great paines happen to the other extreme parts, that unlesse they bee helped, the patient will die; for presently will grow upon them, unlesse it be speedi∣ly hindred, the devouring and fierie furie of the poyson, rending or eating into the guts and stomacke, as if they were seared with an hot iron, and bloud sloweth forth of the ears, nose, mouth, urenarie passage and fundament, and then their case is despe∣rate. These and who else soever shall take any corroding poyson, shall be cured with the same remedies, as those that have taken Cantharides.
Verdegreace so stops the instruments of respiration, that it strangles such as have taken it. The cure is performed by the same remedies as helpe those that have taken Arsenick.
Litharge causeth a heavinesse in the stomack, suppresseth the urine, makes the bo∣dy swelled and livide. Wee remedy this, by giving a vomit presently, then after it pidgeons dung mixed in strong wine, and so drunken. Peter Aponensis wisheth to give oile of sweet almonds and figs. Also it is good to give relaxing and humecting glysters, and to anoint the belly with fresh butter, or oile of lillies.
The scailes of brasse drunke by troubling the stomacke, cause a casting and scou∣ring. The remedie is, if the patient forth with vomit, if he enter into a bath made of the decoction of snailes, if he annoint his belly and breast with butter and oile of lil∣lies, and inject laxative and humecting glysters.
The Load-stone makes them mad that take it inwardly. The Antidote thereof is the powder of gold and an emerald drunk in strong wine, and glysters of milke and oile of sweet almonds.
The filings of lead, and the scailes or refuse of iron, cause great torment to such as take them downe. The which we helpe with much milke and fresh butter dissolved therein, or with oile of sweet almonds drawne without fire, with relaxing and hu∣•…•…cting glysters used untill the paine be perfectly asswaged.
Risagallum, Roseaker or Rats-bane, because it is of a most hot and dry nature, in∣duces thirst and heat over all the body, and so great colliquation of all the humours, that although the patients by medicines speedily given escape death, yet can they not during the residue of their lives, use their members as they formerly did, being destitute of their strength, by reason of the great drynesse and contraction of the joynts. The Antidote thereof is oyle of pine kernels speedily given, and that to the quantity of halfe a pint; then procure vomit, then give much milke to drink, and gly∣sters of the same, and let them sup up fat broths.
Unquencht Lime and Auripigmentum, or Orpiment drunke, gnaw the stomacke and guts with great tormenting paine, and cause unquenchable thirst, an asperity of the jawes and throat, difficulty of breathing, stoppage of the urine, and a bloudy flux. They may bee helped by all fat, humecting, and relaxing things which re∣tund the acrimonie, by lenitive potions, and such things as lubricate the belly; as also by creames, and the mucilages of some seeds, as with a decoction of the seeds of Line, mallowes, marsh-mallowes and other such things set downe at large in the cure of Cantharides.
These exceeding acride and strong waters wherewith Gold-smithes and Chy∣mists separate gold from silver, being taken into the body, are hard to cure, because they are forthwith diffused over all the body, first burning the throat and stomacke. Yet it may be helped by the meanes prescribed against unquenched Lime and Or∣piment.
Cerusse causeth hicketting and a cough, makes the tongue dry, & the extreme parts of the body numbe with cold, the eyes heavie to sleepe. The patients very often in the midst of the day see some vain phantasie or apparition, which in deed is nothing; they make a blacke and oft-times bloudy water, they die strangled unlesse they bee helped. The Antidote, in the opinion of Aëtius and Avicen, is scammonie drunk in new wine, or hony and wine, and other diuretick things, and such things as procure vomit, and purge by stoole.
Plaister, because it concreteth and becommeth stony in the stomacke, causeth