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Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary

Poisons & Antidotes
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942

---Alcohol---
Symptoms: Loquacity, hilarity, quarrelsomeness, mumbling speech; depression, somnolence, staggering gait; flushed eyes, dilated pupils, dizziness, vomiting; slow and feeble pulse, slow and snoring respirations; coma.

Treatment: Lavage or emesis by apomorphine; caffeine or strong hot coffee; solution of acetate of ammonia.

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