Natrum Sulfovinicum
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. VI, p. 611
Natrum Aethylosulfuricum, C.H-KSO, + 2HO.
Preparation, Solutions in water. ^ Authority. Rabuteau, Rev. de Theiap. Med.-Chir., 1871 (Practitioner, /, 1872, p. 247).
It purges in relatively feeble doses; 25 grammes, or 5 drachms, are always sufficient; 10 grammes act on children, and sometimes on adults ; the number of evacuations varies according to the quantity ingested; with a dose of 20 grammes in three glasses of water, it usually produces four or five stools; and from five to eight in doses of 25 grammes; the effects usually begin to manifest themselves an hour after it has been Uiken ; it is the mildest of saline purgatives.