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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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British Pharmacopoeia 1867

Tin

Predominately used as a test solution.

Preparations of Tin

Tin, Granulated / Test Solution [1]

  • “grain tin, reduced to small fragments by fusing and pouring into cold water.”

Solution of Chloride of Tin / Test Solution[2]

  • Granulated Tin (1 oz), Hydrochloric Acid (3 fl oz), distilled water (as needed)


A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

Tin fillings are classified as an Anthelmintic (remedies which expel intestinal worms)

Diseases Treated with

General Diseases

  • Worms: powdered tin is one of the worm medicines recommended to use in order to kill/dislodge the worms[3]

Prescriptions Containing Tin

Anthelminics

  • Anthelmintic Electuary: powdered tin[4]

References

  1. General Medical Council of Great Britain, British Pharmacopeia, (London: Spottiswoode & Co.,1867), 384 https://archive.org/details/britishpharmacop00gene
  2. GMCGB, 388
  3. Savory, John. A Compendium of Domestic Medicine (London: John Churchill and Sons, 1865), 286. https://books.google.ca/books?id=VxoDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
  4. Savory, 316


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