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water in primary syphilis. Acids and salt should not be taken 

 after the use of this medicine. 



Basa harpura 1 or corrosive sublimate as sold in the bazars, is 

 recommended to be given in a single close of eight grains. The 

 medicine is enclosed in a ball of wheat-flour and covered with 

 powdered cloves. It is swallowed with water so as not to touch 

 the teeth. Salts and acids are forbidden to be taken after the 

 use of this medicine. As the Basa harpura of the bazars is not a 

 pure perchloride of mercury, but is a mixture of calomel and 

 corrosive sublimate in indefinite proportions, the patient some- 

 times escapes after this dose. When, however, it contains more 

 of corrosive sublimate than of calomel, intense salivation, 

 gastritis and even death may result. "When such doses of poison- 

 ous remedies are recommended in standard works it is no wonder 



that we should ocsasionally come across cases of dreadful saliva- 



tion, induced by native treatment. The circumstance of wheat- 

 flour being used as a covering to the poison may act as an 

 antidote to some extent. In secondary syphilis Bam harpura is 

 given in small doses in combination with cloves, saffron, sandal 

 wood, and musk. 



For external application, about a drachm of mercury is recom- 

 mended to be rubbed between the 'palms with the juice of the 

 leaves of Sida coalifolia ( bdtydlaha ) till the globules of mercury 

 are no longer visible. The palms are then to be warmed- over the 

 fire till perspiration breaks out from them. 2 





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