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Mainly used to make steel, iron can nevertheless also be used by itself as a building material, or in many applications where steel could be used. Pre-cast iron was generally only imported from British North America, Sweden, and Russia, whereas iron ore was imported from the rest of the places listed.

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Iron / Muriated tincture of Iron / Iron Sulphate / Iron Citrate / Iodine of Iron / Iron Carbonate /

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Iron has different forms and entries in the Compendium

Astringents: Muriated tincture of Iron, Sulphate of iron, (412/391)

Emmenagouges: preparations of iron (414/393)

Tonics: Citrate of iron, Iodine of iron, sulphate of iron, carbonate of iron (416/395)

“Iron was early introduced into the practise of physic. It seems, indeed, to have been known even to the primate cultivators of our science, and has always been regarded as one of the metallic substances most friendly to the animal system.”(108/87)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Iron

Aloes, Socotrine (33/12): can be combined with carbonate of iron or myrrh to promote its emmenagogue properties. Sulphate of iron is included in “The Aloetic Pills” (34/13)
Bark, Cascarilla (50/29): used as a vehicle to administer preparations of iron, and ammonio-citrate of iron is used as an example by Savory
Extract of Gentian (84/63): often combined with the sulphate of iron to form a pill
Gum Myrrh (98/77): subcarbonate of iron is used in a pill “to open the bowels in a suppression of the menses”
Iodine (160/85): the syrup of iron and potassium, or the syrup of iodine and iron and quinine are both used as preparations to administer iodine “…well adapted for the nursery and family use.”
Iron, Aminion-Citrate of. Iron, Citrate of, with Quinine (108/87): “these salts are the most beautiful preparations of iron,” and are used when “ferruginous preparations are indicated.”
Iron, Carbonate of (108/87): powerful tonic, used in the treatment of tic-douloureux by Mr. Hutchinson. Carbonate of iron can also be given to “children of weakly constitutions, especially where there is a tendency to rickets… with well-grounded hope of advantage.”
Iron, Valerianate of (109/88): “Is a powerful tonic, possessing some anti-spasmodic properties also. It is particularily adapted for St. Vitus’s dance and other nervous affections which frequently occur in debilitated females. It has been advantageously used in epilepsy.”
Iron, Saccharine, Carbonate of (109/88): used in children and “delicate females” and combined with tonics (especially a chalybeate tonic), and can also be made into an electuary with honey
Quassia (143/122): because of its tonic properties it can be mixed with sulphate of iron and other metallic salts to treat green sickness and other disorders of the uterus.
Salt of Steel (151/130): can be used in all cases that require preparations of iron, often given in diabetes, late stage of consumption, and amenorrhoea.
Syrup of Sarsaparilla with Iodine of Iron (170/149): tonic and often given to children and “delicate females”
Tincture of Steel, Muriated. Tincture of Perchloride of Iron (184/163): in a lower dose it is given as a tonic and diuretic. Increased dosages can be used to treat dyspepsia and debility. It can form an emmenagogue when combined with aoletics and antispasmodics, which can be used to treat “leucophlegmatic habits.” Mr. Cline (the late) often used the tincture to treat cases of “spasmodic stricture, and consequent suppression of urine.”
Wine of Citrate or Iron and Quinine (191/170): “will be found remarkably beneficial in all disorders characterised by debility and poorness of blood in either sex.” The mixture is “especially suited to females suffering from languor, indigestions, and imperfect assimilation, and to those more particularly whose countenance is pallid, or whose nervous system is weakened.”

Mineral Waters Iron

Cheltenham Waters (208/187): during the summer months and early morning is the best time to drink the waters (on an empty stomach) as this is when they are in their highest concentration of iron

General Observations in Bathing

Medicated Baths (219/198): “Water, impregnated with sulphate of iron, may be useful for strengthening the part to which it is applied; for re-invigorating debilitated limbs; for stopping various kinds of bleeding; for restoring the menstrual and haemorrhoidal discharges when obstructed; and, in short, as a substitute for the natural chalybeate bath.”

Diseases Treated with Iron

General Diseases

Toothache (278/257): carbonate of iron may be taken to help relieve the pain.
Wen, or Goiter (283/262): preparations of iron have been recommended in treatment
Whites or Fluor Albus (284/263): sulphate of iron included in a preparation of steel recommended by Savory
Worms (308/287): carbonate of iron is included in an “Anthelmintic Electuary”

Prescriptions Containing Iron

Anthelmintics

Anthelmintic Electuary (336/315): carbonate of iron

Emmenagogues

For Retention of the Menses (349/328): sub carbonate of iron
Compound Pills of Iron (349/328): sulphate of iron, subcarbonate of iron,
Ferruginous Mineral Water (349/328): sulphate of iron

Imported from

Used to Make

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