A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1891
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Credit: A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    especially that which is so common in summer. It has also been prescribed, in the form of lemonade, as a prophylactic against painter's colic, and there is no doubt that it heightens materially the action of purgative salts, probably by increasing their solubility. ]J> Magnesii sulphatis gij.; ferri sulphatis gr. xxiv.; acidi sulphurici diluti 5ij. ; infusi calumbas ad §viij. Misce, fiat mistura. Capiat cochlearia duo magna omni mane. ]J> Acidi sulphurici diluti 5jss.; tincturse opii 3 j.; syrupi aurantii §j.; aquae ad Jviij. Capiat unciam unam ter in die post singulas sedes liquidas. ACIDUM SULPHUEOSUM. Exteeal Use. The therapeutic properties of this acid depend largely on the very poisonous influence which it exerts by deoxydation on the lowest forms of animal and vegetable life. Thus it forms a good application to those varieties of skin disease, as tinea tonsurans, chloasma, &c, and it rapidly arrests fermen- tation and decomposition. It may therefore be a good appli- cation to foul or sloughing sores ; and, well diluted in the form of spray, it has been of distinct service in various forms of sore throat, which depend on the presence of a minute cryptogamic plant. It is also the best aerial disinfectant, as we know that the antiseptic properties of sulphur, when burnt for purifying purposes, depend on its formation. Internal Use. Sulphurous acid has been recommended in pyrosis, the dyspeptic symptoms attending which are due to various forms of leptothrix and vegetable growths burrowing in the mucous membrane of the stomach ; and in flatulence it is also deserv- ing of a trial. The soda salts, however, have quite superseded it in practice. Dose.— 3ss. ad 3j.