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Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary
Poisons & Antidotes
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942
---Cantharides---
Symptoms: Burning pain in mouth, throat, and stomach; intense thirst, difficulty in deglutition; vomiting; strangury and passage of bloody urine; rapid pulse, dyspnea; pupils dilated; headache, vertigo, delirium.
Treatment: Lavage or emesis by apomorphine; saline purgatives; morphine; mucilaginous drinks; no oil.
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