184 INORGANIC AGENTS 



deliquescent in moist air ; soluble in water ; insoluble in 

 alcohol. 



nose.—D., gr.v.-x. (.3-.6). 



Ferri et Qcjinin^ Citratis. Iron and Quinine Citrate. 

 (U. S. <fe B. P.) 



Synonym. — Chininum ferro-citricum, P. G.; citras ferrico- 

 quinicus, citrate de fer et de quinine, Fr.; citronensaures 

 eisen cliiniu, G. 



Source. — Ferric citrate, 85 gm.; quinine, 12 gm.; citric 

 acid, 3 gm.; water, a sufficient quantity to make 100 gm. 

 U. S. P. 



Properties. — Thin, transparent scales, of a reddish- 

 brown color, without odor, and having a bitter, mildly 

 ferruginous taste ; slowly deliquescent in damp air ; slowly 

 but completely soluble in cold water and but partially 

 soluble in alcohol. 



Febri et Quinine Citras Solubilis. Soluble Iron and 

 Quinine Citrate. (U. S. P.) 



Occurs in thin, greenish-yellow, transparent scales. 

 Very rapidly and completely soluble in cold water. 

 Dose. — D., gr.v.-x. (.3-.6). 



general action of iron and its salts. 



External. — Soluble salts of iron, especially the chloride, 

 sulphate, subsulphate and nitrate, are strongly astringent. 

 They contract tissue when applied to raw surfaces or mucous 

 membranes, by coagulating albumin, and through this means, 

 by compressing the blood vessels from without and plugging 

 them from within with clotted blood, arrest haemorrhage. 

 Iron — in the form of liquor ferri chloridi or liquor ferri 

 subsulphatis — is the best haemostatic medicinal agent we 



