NOTE - This is posted as historical informaton only! For current medical information, call your local Poison Control Center. For a medical emergency, call you local authorities.

Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary

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

---Nitroglycerin ---
Symptoms: Severe throbbing headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea; dizziness, twitching of the muscles, difficult breathing.

Treatment: Emetics and cathartics; recumbency, cold to head; atropine, ergot, strychnine; ephedrine, inhalation of oxygen.

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