Tin
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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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin
Tin in the chemical element with the symbol Sn. It is used in various industries and is not primarily used in medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin
Its medical uses as recorded in the Compendium and Pharmacopeia was for the expulsion of worms.
Contents
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
- ↑ General Medical Council of Great Britain, British Pharmacopeia, (London: Spottiswoode & Co.,1867), 384 https://archive.org/details/britishpharmacop00gene
- ↑ GMCGB, 388
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Savory, 316