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Zinc is most often used as an alloy with copper, creating brass. It is also used in a similar manner to tin for coating steel and other metals susceptible to corrosion. Steel which has been coated with zinc is called galvanized steel.

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Zinc Zinc Sulphate (made from zinc oxide and sulphuric acid) Zinc Acetate (made from zinc and acidic acid) Zinc Oxid (can be used by heating zinc Zn+O2=2ZnO)

A Compendium of Domestic Medicine, 1865

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Zinc sulphate listed as an Astringent (remedies which check bleeding, or excessive secretions) (412/ 391), an Emetic (remedies with occasion vomiting) (414/393), and a Tonic (remedies which increase the tone and vihour of the body, producing their effects more slowly than stimulants) (416/395)

Sulphate of zinc is the preferred emetic of use when treating poisoning resulting from opium and its preparations. (197/176) It is also used in arsenic poisoning (198/177), and lead poisoning (199/178).

Chloride of zinc can be used in fumigations (to arrest contagion), and it was favoured by Sir William Burnett (203/182)

Remedies Containing or to be used with Zinc

• Ointment of Zinc (132/111): used in treat ophthalmia (inflammation of the eye), relaxed ulcers, sore nipples, and ringworm (especially when it is on the scalp)
• Quassia (143/122): can be combined with sulphate of zinc and used to treat green sickness and other uterine disorders
• Tincture of Capsicum (177/156): sulphate of zinc included in a gargle used to relax sore throats
• Zinc, Acetate of (193/172): emetic, but used to make astringent lotions, injections, and collyriums (eye wash). Combined with alum it is used to treat haemorrhages in the lungs and nose (&c.).
• Zinc, Sulphate of (193-4/172-3): powderful emtic, not to be administered in ordinary cases. More commonly it is used in cases of poisoning, when the stomach needs to be quickly emptied. In smaller doeses it can act as an astringent, being employed in cases of diarrhoea and dysentery, and hooping-cough. As an injection it can be administered against gonorrhoea (after the inflammatory period), and gleet. It is also used as a collyrium (to treat ophthalmia) and combined with alum to stop haemorrhages when externally applied.
• Zinc, Valeriente of (194/173): tonic and antispasmodic, often given in cases of hysteria and neuralgia. Dr. Neligan used it to treat convulsions in children, and believed that it also had the ability to destroy worms.

Diseases Treated with Zinc

General Diseases

• Burns and Scalds (231/210): flowers of zinc (zinc oxide) used in an ointment that is to be applied to the affected area if earlier liniments caused too much suppuration (pus forming).
• Bleeding from the Nose (232/211): a lint dossil can be dipped in a strong solution of either zinc acetate or sulphate and inserted into the nostril(s)
• Epilepsy (251/230): should the disease be a result of “weakness or nervous irritability,” zinc sulphate is one of the recommended tonics and stimulants to be given, as such it can be administered in a tonic/stimulant pill combined with a compound galbanum pill. Oxide of zinc can also be used in the formation of a pill when combined with extract of gentian.
• Vomiting of Blood (281/260): acetate of zinc is one of the recommended astringents and stimulants to be given
• Whites, or Fluor Albus (285/264): if discharge continues after intial injections and treatment, an injection of sulphate or acetate of zinc may be used. Sulphate of zinc is included in the example provided by Savory, combined with decoction of bark, and powdered alum.

Infantile Diseases

• Scald-Head (300/279): after washing the scalp, and ointment of zinc should be applied

Medical Articles Containing Zinc

• Ware’s Eye Lotion (316/295): acetate of zinc

Prescriptions Containing Zinc

Emetics

• An Emetic Draught, in case of Poison being taken into the Stomach (350/329): sulphate of zinc

Imported from

• Holland
• Belgium
• Hamburg
• Prussia
• Canada
• France
• South Africa
• United States of America
• Germany
• Australasia
• British North America
• Russia
• Denmark
• Italy
• Sweden
• Portugal
• Norway
• Algeria
• Spain
• Greece