Monticello High School - Memories Yearbook (Monticello, IL)

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The Treatment of Ivy Poisoning The ancient maxim of medical science, WPrevention is the Best Cure,n is exceptionally true in the case of ivy poisoning. It needs very little treatment if you don't have it. Poison ivy is usually encountered in river bottom land where it clings to a dead tree trunk and may be entirely clothed in lethal verdure. The variety that grows in the shape of a vine is termed nPoison Ivy,W while that that grows in short stalks about a foot or two high needs no support and is called poison oak. I believe there is no true botanical dif'erence between the two since every other characteristic is identical and the two are often found growing side by side. Poison ivy is noticed the day after the encounter, flourish- ing upon whatever part of the anatomy that it finds enough per- spiration to hold its venomous oil. A dry skin is usually able to resist the irritating ingredient. The first stages of the misery are the worst. It is at this time that the most damage is done, too. The symptom is a small rash of tiny blisters filled with blood plasma and the abominable oil. When the victim rakes the affected area with his nails, as he is certain to do during the early period of his agony, these blisters are gouged loose, spreading the poisonous oil over other skin that has been scratched by the same nails. The oil gets a new foothold here and rears a new crop of blisters In the course of time, the poisoned areas get well although the process is mostly Htime and very little course.n A victim did he not have new and ingenious treatments to experiment with, would certainly go permanently insane. By experimenting, his insanity is rendered temporary. The preferred treatment is to let it alone and not to scratch it. This is a noble sentiment and adhered to by only those who don't contract the ailment. It is always better to apply all the medicine one knows of or can hear about. It is always better to try the remedies one knows about, for then the course of the poisoning will be run before one gets to the Whearsay cures.n And it is well to try iron chloride first of all as that breaks the victim in very quickly. The correct process is to slap it on as Quickly as possible after first indulging in a satisfying scratch. The bottle must be put away immediately since it is liable to be upset or broken in the events which soon follow. After the smoke has cleared away, the affected area is seen to be dried up. About a week later the skin peels off and the former victim thanks the Deity and resumes eating and sleeping again. -Steve Kratz 25

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