Antagonistic Action of Opium to Belladona

scarlatina, and their pulses about 150. The girl had taken more than the boy, and her symptoms were the most severe. The stomach-pump was applied with good effect, and opium in tincture given both by mouth and enema, a few drops every hour. In about 12 hours both became gradually drowsy and fell asleep, waking nearly well. Dr. Kavanagh states:?" I have no doubt that these children took four times more of the belladonna than would have been sufficient to produce poisonous effects; and when it is borne in mind, that at least 50 drops of the tincture were administered to the girl, and 30 to the boy, and that under other circumstances one would not like to be