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PICONITRATE  OF  POTASH  AS  A  VERMIFUGE. 
bringing  on  serious  nervous  excitement.  He  has  also  found  it 
extremely  well  adapted  for  the  treatment  of  young  children  of. 
delicate  constitutional  habit,  or  when  recovering  from  whooping- 
cough,  infantine  fever,  or  any  other  disease.  The  doses  he  has 
employed  are  five  grains  three  or  four  times  a  day  for  adults, 
and  proportionately  smaller  doses  for  young  children.  In  pre- 
scribing phloridzine  it  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  it  is  almost 
insoluble  in  cold  water,  but  the  addition  of  a  very  small  quantity 
of  ammonia  instantly  dissolves  it;  thus,  by  adding  to  an  eight 
ounce  mixture,  containing  a  drachm  of  phloridzine,  a  few 
drachms  of  aromatic  spirit  of  ammonia,  the  fluid  which  was  pre- 
viously milky  becomes  perfectly  clear,  and  the  addition  of  the 
aromatic  spirit  rather  improves  the  mixture  than  otherwise. 
Dr.  De  Eicci  relates  the  case  of  a  young  lady  of  a  strumous 
constitution,  suffering  from  chlorosis,  in  which  the  effects  of 
phloridzine  were  manifestly  favorable.  The  patient  was  unable 
to  take  iron  in  any  shape,  and  both  quinine  and  salicine  equally 
disagreed  with  her  ;  but  phloridzine  agreed  perfectly  well,  and 
her  constitution  improved  so  much  under  its  use  that  she  was 
subsequently  able  to  take  citrate  of  iron  and  strychnia  in  grain 
doses  which  ultimately  effected  a  perfect  cure.  Dr.  De  Ricci 
thus  recapitulates  the  advantages  of  this  drug ;  it  is  tolerated  in 
cases  where  neither  quinine,  nor  salicine,  nor  bark,  can  be  ad- 
ministered with  impunity ;  it  is  particularly  adapted  to  ypung 
children,  it  is  not  expensive,  and  it  is  abundantly  supplied  in 
Great  Britain,  thus  rendering  us  independent  of  the  rapidly  di- 
minishing cinchona  forests  of  South  America. — Dublin  Quar. 
Jour,  of  Medical  Science.  August,  1863. 
PICONITRATE  OF  POTASH  AS  A  VERMIFUGE. 
Some  months  ago  Dr.  Friedrich,  of  Heidelberg,  described,  in 
Yirchow's  Archiv,  the  beneficial  effects  of  piconitrate  of  potash 
in  cases  of  trichnia.  The  remedy  has  also  been  employed  in 
taenia.  Dr.  Walter,  of  Offenbach,  relates  the  case  of  a  woman 
aged  30,  who  had  taenia  solium  for  several  years.  During  fif- 
teen months  he  had  employed  all  known  remedies  for  tapeworm, 
including  the  bark  of  the  root  of  the  pomegranate,  considered 
by  some  as  infallible.  On  November  15,  1862,  he  gave  the  pa- 
tient five  pills,  each  containing  five  centigrammes  of  piconitrate 
