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Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary

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

---Tobacco---
Symptoms: Nausea and vomiting, restlessness, muscular cramps and twitchings, palpitation and rapid pulse, dizziness, contracted pupils.

Treatment: Emetics or lavage of stomach, tannin, recumbency, heat to surface of the body, cold to the head; stimulants, caffeine; morphine and atropine hypodermically, strychnine, ammonia.

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