KALI SULFURICUM.
Potassium sulphate, K2SO4.
Common names
, Sal catharticum.
Preparation
, Triturations or solutions in
water.
Authorities.
1,
Bayard, Ann. d’Hyg., 27, p. 397 (from Am. J. Med. Sc., 1844), effects of
forty grammes taken in six doses at intervals of one-quarter of an hour;
2, Merat and Delens (same
reference), effects, of one ounce in a woman; 3,
Greusellius, Mem. Acad. Nat. Cur., 1672 (Frank’s Mag.), effects of half
a drachm; 4, Sobaux, Journ. de Med.,
62, effects of two drachms in a woman after parturition; 5, Marchand, Journ. Univ. Med. Sc., 1824,
poisoning of a child by a small quantity.
FACE.
►
Face red, [5]. ► Features and eyes distorted, [5]. ►
Lower lip swollen, [3].
MOUTH.
►
Lips, gum, and tongue white, [5]. ► Burning heat in the mouth, stomach, and
abdomen, [1].
STOMACH.
►
Burning thirst, [5]. ► Nausea and vomiting, [1]. ►
Vomiting, [2]. ► Repeated vomiting of a whitish substance
(after two minutes), [5]. [10.] ►
Violent pain in the stomach and bowels, [2].
ABDOMEN.
►
Tympanitic abdomen, cramp and every indication of approaching
peritonitis, [4]. ► Abdomen very tense, [5]. ► Severe
colic, [4].
STOOL.
►
Purging; the nurse declared that much of the medicine passed
undissolved, and was found at the bottom of the night stool, [1]. ►
Violent purging, [3].
PULSE.
►
Pulse scarcely perceptible, [5].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Cramps of upper and lower extremities, [1].
FEVER.
►
Heat, [2]. ►
Cold sweat (after two minutes), [5].
SUPPLEMENT: KALI SULFURICUM.
Authority.
6,
Dr. Bonnassies, Gaz. des Hôp., Dec. 1843 (Pharm. Journ., vol. iii, p.
259), a woman took 600 grains in three doses.►
The first dose was rejected by the
stomach; the second dose brought on sickness, vomiting, purging, and
cramps; on taking the third dose all the symptoms of cholera were
manifested, and the patient died.® 2000
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