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Materia Medica

Astringents

I have used it with great advantage in a case of obstinate gleet.
The Sach. Sat. is verry generally used as an injection in gonorrhea
and I think often with manifest injury in Phyladelphia by
being used too strong, it is to be preferred to the vinegar of
litharge, it is used with the

sulphate of zinc grs vi [6 grains]
Sach. Sat. X grs [10 grains]
in Aqua Font x ℥ [10 ounces].

Tetanus. Mr John Huter
recommends the patient to be placed in an ice house while taking the
Sach. Sat. I should not be willing to try it but cannot say it
would do them harm. Modus operandi. I
cannot say much of the medicine but I am persuaded it does not produce
all its good effects by lowering the pulse, first because it is more
usefull in hemorrhagy than venesection which reduces the pulse
much more, secondly it is more efficacious than Digitalis the
this reduces the pulse more than Sach. Sat. thirdly in fluor albus
when bloodletting would prove injurious Sach. Sat. proves a
valuable remidy. To what this property is owing or on what this
property depends we are unable to say, it probably may be
owing to its astringency, we know that astringents are
usefull in many cases of hemorrhage, Sach. Sat. appears to be
usefull both in the active and passive hemorrhage, I think