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The person ought to be immediately into the open air, and the temples,  be rubbed with strong vinegar and bra and volatile salts or spirits held to the  The patient should then be laid on {{reconstruct|their} back with the head low, and have a  wine or other cordial poured into  mouth. If subject to hysteric fits, ca or assafoetida should be applied to the r or burnt feathers, horn, or leather.

Dry lint put up the nostrils, pledgets lint dipped in spirits, or weak  blue vitriol, or from ten to twenty  of oil of turpentine taken in water generally stop discharges of blood.

In cases of substances being stopt the mouth and the stomach, where  cannot be extracted by the fingers or otherwise, the person should swallow a piece