Tin
From London's Ghost Acres
Tin is most often used in solder with lead, and as a corrosive-resistant plating on steel or iron. It is also alloyed with copper to produce bronze or with lead, copper, and antimony to create pewter.
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Contents
British Pharmacopoeia 1867
Tin
Predominately used as a test solution.
Preparations of Tin
Tin, Granulated / Test Solution 384
- “grain tin, reduced to small fragments by fusing and pouring into cold water.”
Solution of Chloride of Tin / Test Solution 388
- Granulated Tin (1 oz), Hydrochloric Acid (3 fl oz), distilled water (as needed)
A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865
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Tin fillings are classified as an Anthelmintic (remedies which expel intestinal worms)
Diseases Treated with
General Diseases
- Worms (307/286): powdered tin is one of the worm medicines recommended to use in order to kill/dislodge the worms
Prescriptions Containing Tin
Anthelminics
- Anthelmintic Electuary (337/316): powdered tin