This section is from the book "Facts Worth Knowing", by Robert Kemp Philip. Also available from Amazon: Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know.
Gold (Chloride of); and BISMUTH (nitrate; flowers of; pearl white), are not frequently met with as poisons.
E. Burning pain in the throat, mouth, and the usual symptoms of corrosive poisons - A. For silver, common salt and water; for gold and bismuth, no antidotes are known - T. Give milk and mucilaginous fluids, and castor-oil.
 
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