Bichromate of potassium as a remedy in gastric affections / by Thomas R. Fraser.

  • Fraser Thomas R. (Thomas Richard), Sir, 1841-1920.
Date:
[1894?]
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    Bichromate of Potassium as a Remedy in Gastric Affections. BY THOMAS R. FRASER, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S, F.R.C.P.E. Professor of Materia Medica and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. (Gommunicated to the Eleventh International Medical Congress, held in Rome, April, 1894; and reprinted from The Lancet, April 1*, 1894. Notwithstanding the assertion made in 1883, and supported by much illustrative evidence, by so high an authority as Vulpian,^ of the value of bichromate of potas- sium in the treatment of several forms of gastric affection, this substance has not yet gained a position among the many substances that are used in the treatment of those affections, and but meagre reference is made to it in only a few works on medicine and materia medica. Previously to Vulpian's recommendation, it had been used by internal administration as an emetic, and, with varying success, in syphilitic, broncho-pulmonary and nervous disorders; and ^Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie, 5me. Serie tome viii., 1883, pp. 215; 321.