A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    i6o LOCAL THERAPEUTICS. . diluted It may be used as an inhalant in putrid conditions of the respira tory passages. A solution of chlorinated lime removes Fetor of THE Breath. It is of special advantage in this connection in Diph- theria. J. Solis-Cohen recommends that five grains of chloride of calcium be added to an ounce of the decoction of krameria; two or three drachms diluted with equal quantity of water may be injected night and morning for Fetid Nasal CATARRk. W. Horner introduced the practice of using a solution of a teaspoonful of chloride of lime to a wineglass of water as an injection in Fetid Oz^na. Syrupus Calcis. Saccharate of Lime. Calx Saccharata. Saccharated Lime. Saccharate of lime is made by dissolving sixteen parts of sugar in forty parts of dis- tilled water, adding five parts of caustic lime, digesting three days with occasional stirrin.^, filtering and evaporating. (U. S. D.) A Syrup of Lime {syrupus calcis) is official (U. S. P.j containing five parts of lime in one hundred parts of the syrup. This syrup contains from twenty to forty times as much lime in solution as does lime-water. Diseases of the Skin.—Latour (^«//. Soc. de Therap., 2 s. vii, 1880) has recommended a saccharated glycerole of lime as being very soothing to inflamed surfaces. It has been used in Burns and also in Erysipelas of the face. It is composed of fifty drachms of caustic lime, one hundred drachms of powdered sugar, four pints of water, and one hundred drachms of glycerine. The sugar and lime are intimately mixed in a mortar, the water being gradually added meanwhile, and the mixture repeatedly shaken in a flask for twenty-four hours. It is then filtered, the filtrate is mixed with the glycerine, and the whole evaporated to two pints. This is diluted for use, and is employed in a mixture with almond oil. It will dissolve gelatine. Diseases of the Throat.—Saccharate of lime is recommended by Gomez de la Mata (Gazeta de Optalmologia, Otologia y Laryjigologia, July, 1886), as an insufflation in Diphtheria. CALX SULPHURATA. Sulphurated Lime. Sulphide of Calcium. A mixture (commonly mis-named Sulphide of Calcium), consisting chiefly of sulphide of calcium, and sulphate of calcium in varying proportions, but containing not less than thirty-six per cent, of absolute sulphide of calcium. (U. S. P.) It is a grayish-while or yellowish-white powder, gradually altered by exposure to air, exhaling a faint odor of hydrosulphuric acid, having an offensive, alkaline taste, and an alkaline reaction; very slightly soluble in water, and insoluble in alcohol. (U. S. P.) Diseases of the Skin.—Sulphurated lime is one of the active ingredients in the well-known Vlemingckx^s solution : B. Calcis vivae,