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Common Poisons and Their Antidotes

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Why it works: Vinegar and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and 7,331 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

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Also mentioned in the method: egg

Directions

  1. " EMERQE^CY NOTES."

  2. Hydrochloric or muriatic, nitric, oxalic and sulphuric.

  3. Antidotes: 1 teaspoon haking soda in a cup water; as much lime water as the patient will swallow; 1 teaspoon magnesia, whit- ing, chalk, tooth powder or lime scraped from the wall, stirred into a cup of water; 1 tablespoon strong soapsuds.

  4. Carbolic acid.

  5. Antidote: There is no chemical antidote. Give oil freely, olive, linseed or castor.

  6. ALK.ALIES.

  7. Lye, soft soap, various washing fluids and powders, strong ammonia or hartshorn.

  8. Antidotes: 1 tablespoon vinegar in 1 cup water: the juice of 2 lemons or oranges in an equal amount of water; olive, linseed or castor oil.

  9. MISCELLANEOUS.

  10. Arsenic. Some rat and fly poisons.

  11. Antidote : A fresh preparation of iron ; send to druggist for antidote.

  12. Iodine. The common tincture.

  13. Antidote: Boiled starch — laundry or cornstarch, arrowroot, boiled or baked potatoes.

  14. Lead. Sugar of lead ; paint containing white lead.

  15. Antidote: A tablespoon Epsom salts in a tumbler water.

  16. Mercury. Corrosive sublimate is the commonest form.

  17. Antidote: Raw white of egg.

  18. Opium. Morphine, laudanum, paregoric, many cough medi- cines and soothing syrups.

  19. Antidotes: There is no chemical antidote, but strong coffee, pain and motion counteract its effects. Give an emetic, and then large quantities of strong, black coffee ; keep the patient walking up and down ; switch him ; throw cold water on his face and chest; if the breathing becomes very slow, perform artificial res- piration.

  20. Phosphorus. Matches, and some rat pastes.

  21. Antidote: Common turpentine which has been exposed to the air for some time mixed with magnesia. -Send to druggist. Do not give oil.

  22. Silver. Nitrate of silver or lunar caustic.

  23. Antidote: 1 teaspoon common salt in a cup water.

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By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vinegar + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together7,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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