Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and extemporaneous pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

  • Samuel Otway Lewis Potter
Date:
1887
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Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and extemporaneous pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    water at 59° F., and in i| of boiling water, insoluble in alcohol. Used locally in aqueous solution (gr. v-^^j to the ^), and internally in doses of gr. j^-i] in trituration. Physiological Action and Therapeutics. Chromic Acid is a powerful escharotic, penetrating deeply, but slow of action and not very painful. It coagulates albumen and parts readily with its oxygen, oxidizing organic matter and decomposing ammonia and sulphuretted hydrogen. It is there- fore an energetic disinfectant and deodorizer. When used as a caustic it is mixed with sufficient water to make a paste, which may be employed for the destruction of warts, hemorrhoids and other superficial growths, the neighboring parts being protected by cotton soaked in a strong alkaline solution. For syphilitic warts and condylomata, lupus, tinea tonsurans, etc., a solution of 100 grains to the ^ of distilled water is generally used. A solu- tion of I in 40 is an excellent and inexpensive antiseptic lotion for putrid sores and wounds, syphilitic affections of the tongue,, mouth and throat, ozsena, leucorrhoea, and gonorrhoea. In ute- rine catarrh and hemorrhages a solution of 120 grains to the ^ has been injected into the uterine cavitywith good results. Bichromate of Potassium is a good antiseptic and an escha- rotic of milder action than the acid. In doses of 3'j~^v it has proved fatal to life in adults, with symptoms of gastro-enteritis, suppression of urine, and cardiac paralysis. It is chiefly employed as a local application in saturated solution to warts and venereal condylomata; and in dilute solution (gr. j—x to the §) for catarrhal conditions of the nasal, buccal, or vaginal mucous mem- brane. Internally it has been employed with benefit in locomotor ataxia and in dyspepsia simulating gastric cancer; also in chronic gastric catarrh, the tongue having a thick yellow coat, in chronic diarrhoea from intestinal ulceration, and in chronic ulcers of the pharynx and mouth. It is a good remedy in syphilitic sore throat, local rheumatism of the fibrous tissues, periosteal and syphilitic rheumatism, and acute catarrh and influenza, chronic nasal catarrh, chronic laryngitis, and chronic catarrhal affections of the bronchial mucous membrane, especially when the expectoration is tough and stringy. It has also been used with some success in membranous croup and diphtheria. In pharmacy it is employed in the preparation of Chromic Acid and Valerianic Acid, and as a test solution. Most of the medical galvanic and faradic bat- teries are run by a mixture of this salt with Sulphuric Acid. PoisoJiing by it should be treated as directed for that by mineral acids.
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