Kali Sulfuricum

Potassium sulphate, K^SO^.

Common names, Sal mirabile, or Sal catharticura, Glauber salts.

Preparation, Triturations or solutions in water.

Authorities. 1, Bayard, Ann. d’Hyg., 27, p. 397 (from Am. J. Med. Sc., 1844), effects of forty grammes taken in six doses at intervals of onequarter of an hour; 2, Merat and Dolens (same reference), effects of one ounce in a woman ; 3, Greusellius, Mem. Acad. Nat. Cur., 1672 (Frank’s Mag.), effects of half a drachm; 4, Sobaux, Journ. de Med., 62, effect of two drachms in a woman after parturition ; 5, Marchand, Journ. Univ. Jled. Sc., 1824, poisoning of a child by a small quantity.

Face

Face red

Features and eyesdistorted

Lower lip swollen

Amelioration

Lips, gum, and tongue white

Burning heat in the mouth, stomach, and abdomen,h

Stomach

Burning thirst

Nausea and vomiting

Vomiting

Repeated vomiting of a whitish substance (after two minutes)

Violent pain in the stomach and bowels

Abdomen

Tympanitic abdomen, cramp and every indication of approaching peritonitis

Abdomen very tense

Severe colic,h

Stool

Purging; the nurse declared that much of the medicine passed undissolved, and was found at the bottom of the nightstool,h

Violent purging

False

Pulse scarcely perceptible

Inferior Extremities

Cramps of upper and lower extremities

Fever

Heat

Cold sweat (after two minutes)