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

---Picrotoxin---
Symptoms: Salivation, vomiting, sweating, slow pulse, contracted pupils, muscular twitchings passing on to epileptiform convulsions followed by unconsciousness.

Treatment: Evacuation of stomach; chloral or other sedatives.

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