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4 -very efficacious in preventing the generation of — 
_. worms, administering it ina ig infusion of 
- asavehicle, This acid has been used as an antilitic. — 
‘The antiseptic virtue, above noticed, has long been — 
known. Some strong facts on this point are related by 
Sir Wm. Fordyce. As a disinfecting agent, the acid 
has been hi commended. It appears, however, 
too acrid and oppressive, if not suffocating, for apart- 
ments inhabited, as the wards of hospitals, &c. It is 
better fit to disinfect recently occupied cells of pri- 
sons or hospitals, wards, dissecting rooms, &c. which 
a _ have become foul from putrefactive animal or vege- ~ 
ag table matter, or from previous animal effluvia without | 
ventilation, or from previous contagious disease. The 
" muriatic acid gas may be evolved by pouring sulphuric 
acid on common salt. 
This, in common with the other mineral acids, is 
preferable in cases where we wish a long-continued 
use of acids, since they are not liable to decomposi- 
thon by the digestive process. 
+ Dose, Lv. to xx. frequently repeated, in some bland 
ee fluid, as barley water, gum Arabic water, or, if occa- 
_ ® ~* sion require, in bitter tonic infusion. Pewter or lead- 
‘en spoons must not be used for receiving it. 
No. 1.—Acidi muriatici, £355 to f3ij to FZiv of an 
kind of fluid, as a gargle in sore t, &e, 
No. 2.—<Acidi muriatici, m,viii 2 Mixed, for injection — 
eaten TT rev in gonorrhea. 
one resins ce refreshing tonic 
Decoct. Hordei, 0] Sapte: me 
Syrupi, ° f3ij vei quy typhus fever. 
0, 18.—-Acipum_ Nrtro-Muriaticum. Nitro~ 
: muriatic acid. _ be septs eS 
- “FF nitric and muriatic acids be mixed, a mutual decom- 
irs ition takes place, of which water, chlorine, and 
"nitrous acid are the results. This constitutes the 
' nitro-muriatic acid, or aqua regia of the older che- — 
- Mepicat Prorrrties aNp Uszs. A bath, acidulated 
“with this mixture, has been proposed as a substitute _ 
for mercury, by Dr. Scott and Dr. James Jobnsop. 
“The former strenuously recommends it in liver ¢ 
mate, spring from deficient, superabund: and 
