CALCIUM.
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The sulphuret of lime is stimulant, andis esteemed absorbent and diaphoretic. Ithas been recommended in gouty affections,diseases of the skin, and in cases of poi-soning by metallic substances. In an ex-cessive quantity it is poisonous. — Dose,from two to ten grains. Its cheapness ren-ders it preferable to other sulphurets forthe preparation of baths.
It is incompatible with acids and metallicsalts.
anti-phthisical powder. (niemann ;Augustin)
R. Sulphuret of Lime, two drains.
Extract of Liquorice, one dram.
Leaves of Aconite, half a dram.
Make a powder. — A dose to be taken
every two hours in pulmonary consumption.
liquid sulphuret of lime. (Ferr.)
R. Sulphur, 1 of each> four ounces.Quick Lime, JWater, a sufficient quantity
to reduce the whole to a paste ; boil this infour pounds of water, to the consumptionof one third, and strain.
This is for a bath of about five hundredpounds of water.
LINIMENT OF SULPHURET OF LIME.
Arcanum Archideti, Lmimentun Calcarlasulphuratœ. (Augustin; Niemann)
R. Sulphuret of Lime, one ounce.
Oil of Juniper, two drams.
Dippel's Animal Oil, ten drops.
Mix.
It is employed in gout.
PROTOXI-CHLORURET OF CALCIUM.
Oxi-chloruretum Catch, Chlorureturn OxidiCalcii, Bichloruretum seu Oximurias senChloras seu Subchloras Calcis. (Suec. ;Niemann; Henri; Fee; Van Moss)
R. Muriate of Soda, four parts.
Black Oxide of Manganese,
one part and a half.
Sulphuric Acid, three parts.
Spring Water, six parts.
Distil the muriate from a glass retort in
a sand-bath, and receive the gas in a flask
containing sixty-two parts of water and two
of quick lime. Strain the solution, and
preserve it in bottles stopped with emery.
(Suec ; Niemann ; Van Mons)
The liquor thus obtained is called Oxi-genated Solution of Lime, Solutio Oxymu-riatis Calcici.
R. Slaked Lime, two parts.
Hydrochloric Acid (22 degrees),
four parts.
Black Oxide of Manganese,
one part and a half.Let the chlorine which is disengaged,pass into a little water, to free it from hy-drochloric acid ; then let it arrive at thebottom of a glass funnel reversed and placedin a vessel filled with sifted and slightlymoistened lime. Preserve the product inflasks. (Fee ; Henri)
Chevallier has recommended the fol-lowing process :
Put slaked lime into a leaden cylinder, toone end of which is adapted a stopper ofthe same metal receiving a leaden tube,while the other is closed by a cover towhich is adapted a tube which plunges intolime water. The first tube is made to com-municate with a stone-ware vessel, havingtwo openings, containing five hundred partsof decrepitated muriate of soda, one hun-dred and twenty-five of oxide of manganese,five hundred of sulphuric acid (66* degrees) ,and two hundred and fifty of water; or,simply, two hundred and twenty parts ofhydrochloric acid and one hundred of oxideof manganese.
LABARRAQUe'S DISINFECTING LIQUOR.
(Fee ; Henri ; Pierquin)
R. Protoxi-chloruret of Calcium, one part.
Pulverize it in a mortar, gradually addingto it,
Pure Water, ten parts.
Set it aside, and filter. (Fee ; Henri)
Pierquin prescribes from twenty tothirty parts of water.
The Swedes prepare a similar liquor bydiluting their solution of oxymuriate with agreater or less quantity of water.
It is recommended in lotions to syphili-tic ulcers. Labarraque has recently em-ployed it successfully for the disinfectionof places filled with putrid and unwhole-some exhalations. It has also been tried asan application to sordid and fetid ulcers.It is excellent in correcting bad odours, onaccount of which property, it will be foundvery valuable to armies, when the hospitalsof the first line, always encumbered afterbattle, become the sources of infection andmortality. But its stimulant propertiesshould never be lost sight of when it is tobe applied to diseased parts.
knox's powder. (Cadet de Gassi-court ; Niemann)
R. Muriate of Soda, eight parte.
Protoxi-chloruret of Calcium,
three parts.Mix.
By adding a tumbler of water to an ounce