IRON SULPHO- CARBOLA TES. 3 r 9 



venereal sores.* Like testimony comes from various 

 American Surgeons.f 



Iron Sulpho-Carbolate. This has been largely em- 

 ployed in the treatment of affections in which other 

 iron salts have been recommended. The dose for 

 adults has been 10 to 15 grains. In children the dose 

 has been 2 to 3 grains after the first year. The chief 

 value of the salt has been seen in impetigo and the 

 skin affections of ill-nourished children. In tuber- 

 cular and pretubercular affections it has produced no 

 marked benefit, the results being far inferior to those 

 of the administration of the sodium salt. In external 

 scrofulosis it seems to have been of advantage. 



I have myself given the sulpho-carbolate of soda in 

 several cases, and, although I am not at present justi- 

 fied in expressing a decided opinion that the benefit 

 observed was entirely due to the sulpho-carbolate ad- 

 ministered, I am quite convinced that the treatment is 

 well worthy of being still further carefully tested. I 

 have given the salt in doses of twenty grains with plenty 

 of water three times or more a day in several cases of 

 fever, erysipelas, and blood poisoning that have un- 

 questionably progressed most satisfactorily ; but, until 

 I have had further experience of the treatment in 

 a considerable number of very bad cases, I cannot 



* On the topical treatment and dressing of wounds "Practitioner," 

 October, 1868, p. 208. 



t " American Journal of Pharmacy." See " Pharmaceutical 

 Journal," July 1 6, 1870.. 



