5 first, rst. taste insipid, 
- metallic taste in the 
iam, in chronic ophihalmia. Dose, 
nic, under half a grain—as an emetic, from gr. i to 
gts. ij. In over-doses, a poison, quickly producing death. 
‘Duval and others assert, from experiments, that sugar Se 
an antidote. ; 
=. Orric. Prep. rugo preparata. D. Ung. sub-acetatis Cupri. a 
. E. Tiaiecaiiears Hruginis. L. D. Cupri sub-acetas pre- 
poratam. U.S. 
207. —Cupri SULPHAS. L. E. D. & U. S. Ved 
"phate of c ae 
Quaririss. Found in the sho) ra-mar 
transparent, rhomboidal prisms; inodorous, ; 
' acrid, styptic taste, and liable to slight. efflorescence. 
“Treated with sulphuric acid, no effervescence takes place, 
by. which i it general bed distinguished from No. 206. 
| Spec vity, 2.1 according to ace it 
consists eee 6 parts” of hydrate « ageree . Seo or x 
and 25.4 of water of crystallization. Soluble in + pare “ae 
of water at 60°, and Say than 2 at 212°; ‘insoluble in al~ 
cohol, : 
MepreaL PRopERTIES AND UsEs. Emetic, astringent, and 
tonic, internally—extern ally, an escharotic; has been used 
- for the first property, in incipient phthisis, i in croup, and 
when laudanum has been taken in an over-dose ; for its. 
astringency, in alyine hemorrhages, intermittent fever 
and epee A and other spasmodic affections ; pledgets | of 
lint_dipped in a solution of it, as a styptic in epistaxis, 
stuffed up the nostrils. A weak solution in water is an 
excellent collyrium, in ophthalmia. Forms the base of 
Bates’s Aqua Camphorate, recommended by Mr. Ware for 
purulent infantile ophthalmia. Equal parts of this salt and 
tart. emet. make the the dry vomit of Maryatt. 
“Dose, as an emetic, grs. \j to grs. xv—as tonic, gr. — 
fora collyrium, 3 to 1 or 2 grains to the ounce of ages 
“Bene. wa. Solu. Cupri Sulphat. comp. E. cgrumnm 
‘moniatum. L, E. D. Cupr Sulphens gems |, ee 
