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Physician's Materia Medica on Potassium Bichromate (dichromate)
POTASSIUM BICHROMATE (Dichromate)
Alterative, antiseptic, moderately caustic. Prescribed in pro gressive spinal paralysis, gastric ulcer, some forms of dyspepsia and in aphonia; also applied locally in solution to warts, syphilitic vege tations, and as a remedy for fetid perspiration of the feet. Dose, 0.003 to 0.03 Grm. (1-20 to 1/2 gr.); applied in 5% solution for sweating feet; in 10% solution as a caustic.1
Alterative, antiseptic, moderately caustic. Prescribed in pro gressive spinal paralysis, gastric ulcer, some forms of dyspepsia and in aphonia; also applied locally in solution to warts, syphilitic vege tations, and as a remedy for fetid perspiration of the feet. Dose, 0.003 to 0.03 Grm. (1-20 to 1/2 gr.); applied in 5% solution for sweating feet; in 10% solution as a caustic.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.