Stedman's Shorter Medical Dictionary
by T. L. Stedman, M.D., Wilcox & Follett Co., 1942

Poisons & Antidotes

---Zinc Salts---
Symptoms: Styptic and metallic taste in the mouth, vomiting, sometimes passage of blood-stained stools, abdominal cramps, thready pulse, collapse.

Treatment: Lavage of stomach with tannin, sodium bicarbonate, or chalk in the water; white of egg, milk, soap, mucilage; recumbency, external heat; strychnine and atropine hypodermically, strychnine, caffeine or strong hot coffee.