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usually in the form of vinegar, as a stimulant and 

 refrigerant. It forms salts in the stomach, enters the 

 blood, when it becomes oxidized, producing carbonic 

 acid, increasing the acidity of the urine in its excre- 

 tion, at the same time also increasing the amount of 

 water in the urine. Secretion in general is promoted 

 by small doses, but its long-continued use causes in- 

 digestion, emaciation, and poverty of the blood. 

 Rubbed briskly into the skin it causes redness; if 

 continued it forms blisters resembling those produced 

 by scalding water. It is applied to remove warts, 

 scurf, to destroy cryptogamic parasites and acari; 

 well diluted in mallenders, sallenders, scab, and 

 mange. The diluted acid or vinegar combined with 

 salt or sal-ammoniac, to contusions, sprains; dilute 

 vinegar for sponging the skin of febrile patients, and 

 to check excessive perspiration. Also as a test for 

 albumin in urine. 



Sulphur, Sulphites, Sulphides. 



Sulphur Lotum, U. S. P., washed sulphur; Sul- 

 phus Prcecipitatum, U. S. P., lac sulphur, milk of 

 sulphur, precipitated sulphur. Both of these are 

 preparations of sublimed sulphur. Dose : As laxative, 

 H., §i.-iv. ; C, ? iij.-vi. ; D., 3 i.-iv. ; as altera- 

 tive, H., iss.-ij.; C, lij.-iv. ; D., 3 ss.-ij. 



Sodii Sulphis, sodium sulphite; Sodii Hypo- 

 sulphis, sodium hyposulphite. Dose: H. and C, 

 3 ss.-i. ; D., gr. x.-xl. 



Calx Sulphurata, sulphurated lime, so-called sul- 



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