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Nitric Acid

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Classified as an Astringent (Remedies Which Check Bleeding, or Excessive Secretions)(412/391) and as a Caustic and Counter-Irritant (Remedies Which Chemically Destroy or Burn the Animal Tissues When Locally Applied)(412/391)

Nitric Acid, when concentrated, is caustic and often used diluted. Its vapours have been used in fumigations. It was used to induce vesication (blistering) during a cholera outbreak in India. When diluted, the acid can be used as a tonic, antiseptic, and anti-syphilitic. A further diluted version that has been sweetened with sugar forms an “excellent and agreeable beverage” used in the treatment of typhoid, malignant, and petechial fevers. Lotions containing diluted nitric acid can treat both unhealthy and foetid ulcers. (26/5)

Fumigation (202/181)

The Nitro-Muriatic Bath (219/198)(220/199)

Also check out nitro-muturic acid

Remedies Containing or to be used with Nitric Acid

• Acid, Nitric (26/5): see def
• Acid, Nitric, Diluted (26-27/5-6) diluted nitric acid is used in a draught given to treat heartburn. It is also included in “Nitric Acid Mixture” and “Nitric Acid Draught(s),” the last of the two being a treatment for asthma.
• Simarub Bark (155/134): diluted nitric acid include in Dr. Baillie’s prescription

Diseases Treated with Nitric Acid

General Diseases

• Warts (282-261): nitric acid is the more effective methods for destroying warts

Medical Articles Containing Nitric Acid

• Freezing Mixture (324/303): dilute nitric acid

Prescriptions Containing Nitric Acid

Alternatives

• Alternatives in the form of Mixture of Draught (330/309) fourth version: dilute nitric acid

Antispasmodics

• Anti-Asthmatic Draught (Another)(337/316): diluted nitric acid

Astringents

• Dr. Baillie’s Mixture for Children (341/320): diluted nitric acid

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