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mixture, the gelatin is warmed until it melts when it is added to 1000 

 mils of 0.9 per cent, sodium chloride, to which has been added 2 

 gms. of sodium carbonate crystals, and warmed to body temperature. 

 The usual amount administered in man is 500 to 750 mils. 



CALCIUM CHLORIDE AND CALCIUM LACTATE 



Calcium chloride occurs as white, translucent, hard fragments, 

 odorless, of a sharp saline taste, and very deliquescent. It is soluble 

 in 1.3 parts of water and 8 of alcohol. 



Calcium lactate is a white crystalline powder, not readily soluble 

 in water unless freshly prepared. 



Dose of either salt is : 



H. g ss— j ; 15.— 30. D. gr. v— xx; 0.3—1.3. 



Action and Uses. These salts possess the power of causing the 

 blood to coagulate more readily outside the body and according to 

 some investigators (Wright) the same result is obtained when they 

 are administered internally. They have been recommended in 

 hemophilia and in general the same conditions in which gelatin is 

 recommended as a hemostatic but their action is uncertain. 



