CAL CIUM SULPHO- C ARE OLA TES. 3 T 7 



with quinine, in an epidemic of severe typhoid. 

 Twenty-four cases were thus treated, with three 

 deaths. Dr. Ligertwood says, " I think the treatment 

 was very successful. There did not seem to be the 

 same tendency to relapse that I have found under 

 other treatment. The diarrhoea, often very severe, 

 never became so exhausting as to call for any special 

 treatment." 



Dr. Sansom has also given the sulpho-carbolate in 

 about one hundred cases of phthisis. In many there 

 \yas a very decided increase in weight soon after the 

 remedy was commenced. Although indisposed to 

 attribute the favourable results entirely to the effects 

 of the sulpho-carbolate, upon the whole, Dr. Sansom 

 has been led to conclude that it really acted bene- 

 ficially. 



II. Sulpho-Carbolates of Alkaline Earth Bases. 

 Calcium Sulpho-Carbolate. Quite apart from any 

 faculty as an indirect means of administering carbolic 

 acid, this salt has a property which renders it peculiarly 

 valuable for administration in certain diseases. In 

 cases in which the osseous system is deficient in lime 

 salts, it has always been a problem to find a lime salt 

 which shall be readily absorbed by the vessels. The 

 difficulty with regard to the ordinary medicinal lime 

 preparations is their insolubility. Calcium-carbonate 

 is not sensibly soluble in water ; the phosphates are 

 insoluble ; and a pint of water at 60 F. will only dis- 

 solve II grains of calcium hydrate. The calcium 



