Poisonous with privation of water. Dose: horse, ox, pig, dog, hen.
Symptoms: anorexia, thirst, emesis, colics, diarrhœa, dysuria,
weakness, spasms, palsy, death in six hours to two days or more.
Lesions: gastric congestion, ecchymosis, blood fluid, bright red,
cerebral congestion. Treatment: emesis, water, demulcents, enemata,
oils, cold to head. Brine: salt, ptomaines, toxins, from salt meat and
fish. Strongest at three months old. Dose: horse, pig, dog. Symptoms:
nervous, disorder, mainly spasmodic. Lesions: congestion of
encephalon. Treatment: anodynes, stimulants, wine, camphor.
Common salt is especially irritant if given in concentrated solution and
with subsequent deprivation of water. The poisonous dose for the horse
is 2 to 3 lbs. (Gohier), for cattle 4 to 5 lbs. (Hertwig), for the pig 7
to 8 ozs. and for the dog 6 to 7 ozs. Chickens are poisoned by picking
up broken pieces of salt instead of pebbles, or by salted food.
_Symptoms._ Anorexia, intense thirst, dullness, emesis in vomiting
animals, colics, watery diarrhœa, frequent urination, muscular weakness,
spasms, paralysis, weak pulse, red buccal mucosa, dilated pupils. Death
may take place in six hours or it may be delayed two days or longer. In
chickens giddiness and rotary movements are common.
_Lesions._ Congestion of the stomach and intestines with points of
ecchymosis. The mucosa of the bladder is reddened. The blood is fluid
and of a bright red. There is more or less congestion of the cerebellum
and medulla and their meninges.
_Treatment._ Emetics (tepid water, tickling fauces) and the stomach
pump. Abundance of water or of mucilaginous drinks. The same liquids by
the rectum. Bland oils may be given as emollients and eliminating
agents. Cold to the head is usually desirable.