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Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary
Poisons & Antidotes
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942
---Cocaine---
Symptoms: "Queer" feelings, restlessness, incoherent speech; purposeless movements of extremities; dryness of throat, with feeling of constriction and choking, difficulty in swallowing; tingling in hands and feet, staggering gait; pupils usually dilated, severe headache with burning sensation and difficult respiration.
Treatment: Lavage of stomach with tannin in the water; recumbency heat to the extremities: stimulants, hot strong coffee, strychnine in failure of respiration, artificial respiration and oxygen, inhalation of amyl nitrite; morphine and atropine hypodermically.
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