Symptoms

Acts much like arsenic, but quicker and more violent, corrosion of mouth, burning of throat, distress in stomach and bowels, excessive thirst, vomiting and purging of bloody mucus, skin cold and clammy, convulsions.

Treatment

If vomiting does not occur, induce It with an emetic; give freely white of eggs with milk, or flour and water, or flour and soft soap thinned with water. The protosulphuret of iron is an antidote, but is useless ten minutes after the poison has entered the stomach. Mercury, it must be remembered, occurs in many forms, the more common being corrosive sublimate, red precipitate, white precipitate, cinnabar, vermillion, and cyanide of mercury.