The surgery of syphilis / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The surgery of syphilis / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any prolonged stirring; (2) that it can be sterilized by heat as often as is necessary, without undergoing any chemical decom- position ; (3) that vigorous shaking before use is all that is neces- sary to ensure a proper consistency of the mixture ; (4) that it is not necessarily affected by heat or cold, and it is suitable, therefore, for use in any climate, without the special precautions necessary to preserve the other oils and creams of mercury. The officers o the Royal Army Medical Corps, who give these facts, state t a it is less active than some of the other mercurial preparations but that it may be used in the later courses of injection (see p. 290). Thymol Acetate of Mercury. The thymol acetate of mercury is a white crystaUine salt which is insoluble in water, and is said to be very slightly painful when it is injected. It is said, too, to e better tolerated than calomel or the salicylate of mercury. is given in weekly injections, the dose being two grains m sterilize Mercury Soziodolate is insoluble in water, and is administered m the form of a weekly injection suspended in sterilized oil of vaseline. The dose is one-third of a grain, the salt itself containing 35 per cent, of mercury. . . . , There is also a phenate or carbolate of mercury which is insoluble in water, and artrate of mercury. The dose of each is 1| to 2 grs. The Soluble Salts oe Mercury used for Injection The number of the soluble salts of mercury which have been recommended for injection is so considerable that no pretence is made here to give an exhaustive list of them. The chief soluble salt used for injection has been the perchloride in doses of one-twelfth to three-quarters of a grain, prescribed I according to Lewin’s formula :— a Hyd. perchlor. . . grm. j ss. — grs. xxiv Sodium chloride . . grm. j = £rs- xv* Distilled water . . grms. 100 = shj • A cubic centimetre (17 minims) of this solution contains 65 milli- grammes, or about one-thirteenth of a grain of mercury.