It would be useful to know all the common kinds of poisoning and have the appropriate antidotes on hand.
"The Modern Home Medical Adviser" edited by Morris Fishbein has a useful section on this from the 1930s, pp.40-49.
For more modern poisons, it could be helpful to get the advice of someone currently working for one of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. The tricky part will be finding someone with the time to help; most of the poison control centers are underfunded and overwhelmed. It's not a federally funded system. Most of the centers are housed by state university teaching hospitals, and they are chronically short staffed. Perhaps you could seek out someone who is recently retired. They are likely to be happy to help and could have valuable knowledge, especially if they trained as a nurse or doctor in the middle of the 20th century.
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Re: A village surgery lab c 1920, 1930?
Date: 2022-11-03 02:21 pm (UTC)"The Modern Home Medical Adviser" edited by Morris Fishbein has a useful section on this from the 1930s, pp.40-49.
For more modern poisons, it could be helpful to get the advice of someone currently working for one of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. The tricky part will be finding someone with the time to help; most of the poison control centers are underfunded and overwhelmed. It's not a federally funded system. Most of the centers are housed by state university teaching hospitals, and they are chronically short staffed. Perhaps you could seek out someone who is recently retired. They are likely to be happy to help and could have valuable knowledge, especially if they trained as a nurse or doctor in the middle of the 20th century.
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