Materia medica, pharmacy, pharmacology and therapeutics / by W. Hale White.

  • Hale-White, William, Sir, 1857-1949.
Date:
1903
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    freely given. The sulphate is an antidote to lead and barium salts, forming insoluble sulphates. Intestines.—The magnesium salts are very com- mon purgatives. Magnesia, the carbonate, and fluid magnesia are excellent for children. The sulphate is one of our best saline purgatives. It is very largely used, especially for the varieties of constipation that are associated with hepatic disorder, gout, or excessive uric acid. Its use is then spread over some time, and it may conveniently be taken as one of the mineral waters which contain it and sodium sulphate {see p. 139). A concentrated solution, causing as it does a greatly increased secretion of intestinal fluid, is a useful purge for dropsy or ascites. Blood and Kidneys.—So little of these salts is absorbed, that they are only to be given for their alkaline effects on the blood and urine in those cases of gout and uric acid gravel in which potassium or sodium salts cannot be borne. CERIUM. Symbol, Ce. Atomic weight, 1392. (Not oflBcial.) Cerii Oxalas—Cerium Oxalate. Ce.(C.Oj)„9H.jO. SoDRCK.—Precipitate a solution of an oxalate with a soluble salt of cerium. Chabacters.—A white granular powder, insoluble in water. Impurities.—Lanthanum oxalate, didymium oxalate. Dose, 2 to 10 gr. Therapeutics. It is given empirically for vomiting, especially that of pregnancy, and occasionally with benefit. No physiological action is known, and probably no cerium is absorbed.