A handbook of local therapeutics / edited by Harrison Allen.

Date:
1893
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    SOZOIODOL AND ITS COMPOUNDS. slightly analgesic, and prevents suppuration. The vesicles are punctured, and a mixture of sozoiodol and starch Ci-io) dusted over the exposed surfaces. The favorable action of the remedy can be detected within twenty-four hours. Sozoiodol is also used in the treatment of Indolent Ulcers. In two cases presenting identical features, Nitschmann {Int. klin. Rundschau, No. 32, 1891 ; see also Therap. Gaz., February, 1889) treated one with iodoform and the other with sozoiodol, and found the latter the more efficient agent. The formula commended by this writer is as follows: Ten parts of sozoiodol to one of lanolin. Diseases of the Nose, Throat, etc.—Sozoiodol, according to M. A. Fritsche {Therapeut. Monatsheft., June, 1888, p. 2S3). has value in the local treatment of Pharyngitis Sicca and Chronic Laryn- gitis. Claims are also made that it aids in healing Tubercular Ulcer- ations. Suchannek recommends it in the treatment of Chronic Nasal Catarrh, accompanied with scanty secretions. Insufflations of a powder composed of one part of the salt to seven of talc are preferred. The powder may, hov/ever, be weakened and yet retain its efficiency, so as to represent one part to twelve, or even one to fifteen. Hydrargyri Sozoiodolas. Sozoiodolate of Mercury. This salt forms a lemon yellow powder, soluble in water in the proportion of one part to five hundred; more readily soluble than sodium chloride. Sozoiodolate of mercury, in the strength of i-io, is said to be caustic. General Surgery.—Troemner credits it with value in the local treat- ment of Syphilis. H. Suchannek recommends it in proportion of 1-20 and i-io for Syphilitic Ulceration ; it is to be applied directly by a dossil of cotton to the selected surface. Diseases of the Skin.—Nitschmann { Wien klin. Wochenschr., 1891, No. 26) used a ten per cent, solution of the sozoiodolate of mercury as a lotion in Tinea Versicolor, and also in hypodermic injection for Syphilitic Eruptions. The formula he employs is the following: U. Hydrarg. sozoiodol., gr. viij; potas. iodid., gr. xvj j aquge destillat., n\^c. M. A Pravaz syringeful (^i^xv) of this is injected once a week. Diseases of the Throat, etc.—Suchannek commends this salt in the local treatment of Tubercular Laryngitis. Potassium Sozoiodol. Sozoiodolate of Potassium. This salt of sozoiodol occurs in long, white, acicular crystals, soluble in fifty parts of water. The solution is acid to litmus paper, and gives a bluish-violet color with ferric chloride. Exposure to light causes the aqueous solution to darken.