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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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iscompletely slaked. The success of the operation is tested by dropping a little ofthe oxide of zinc into some oil of vitriol and water, when, if any of the carbonateremain, its existence will be at once indicated by the effervescence caused by theescape of the gas. The preparation should be kept in a well stoppered bottle, as,like lime and magnesia, it absorbs carbonic acid from the air, and becomesreconverted into a carbonate. Oxide of zinc is a soft, white, tasteless, inodorouspowder, insoluble in water. It is used occasionally for hysteria, epileptic fits, St. Vituss dance, neuralgia,whooping cough, and other diseases supposed to be of nervous origin; but there areother remedies on which we should place greater reliance in the treatment of thesecomplaints. There is one condition, however, in which its use is of considerable value.Its power of arresting the profuse night sweats, which so frequently reduce thelittle remaining strength of consumptives, is unquestionable. We have many
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16.— FRUIT OF TEE STRAMONIUM. 870 MATERIA MEDICA. remedies for this purpose, but few upon which greater reliance can be placed. It should be given every night at bed-time in five-grain doses. It is convenient!/administered in the form of the oxide of zinc pills (Pr. 66), each of which containstwo and a half grains; but it may be given, if thought desirable, as a powder,mixed with a little white sugar. Two are to be taken every night at bed-timewhen the perspiration is troublesome. Sulphate of zinc, or white vitriol, is found native at Holywell in Flintshire andin a few other places. It is usually prepared by dissolving zinc in dilute oil ofvitriol, and then evaporating down the solution so obtained until it crystallises.Commercial zinc is usually contaminated by traces of iron and lead, a circumstancewhich renders the purification of the salt advisable. It may readily be freed fromits impurities by immersing in the solution a strip of zinc, on which the other metalsare soon deposite

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