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Physician's Materia Medica on Cerium Oxalate

CERIUM OXALATE
   The most efficient remedy we have for vomiting depending on pregnancy or uterine irritation. Has been used in sea-sickness and in cholera with good results. Does not replace Bismuth in relieving gastric irritation. Dose, 0.06 to 0.3 or o.o'Grm. (1 to 5 or 10 grs.).1


WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Cerium Oxalate

GASTRIC CATARRH
   At first withhold all food, later give milk and lime water.... / ...ach of irritating matters by lavage with warm water, washing out finally with a solution of boric acid, one drachm to the pint Bismuth subnitrate and cerium oxalate are useful. Later regulate diet carefully and prescribe as tonic a mixture containing columbo and sodium phosphate. Be sure that medici... / ...regulate the bowels by use of non-irritant laxatives. Tonics are almost always indicated.1

SEA SICKNESS
   Potassium bromide is useful as a prophylactic. Preparationsof coca and of kola; cerium oxalate, menthol, camphor are sometimw of service.1

VOMITING
   If due to fermentation of food. regulate the diet and prescribe gastric antiseptics, or lavage.... / ... the vomiting is centric, acetanilid in grain doses is an eficient remedy; potassium bromide, per rectum, may be given. In the vomiting of pregnancy, cerium oxalate, carbonated water; chloretone, cocaine, creosote, tincture iodine in small doses, potassium bromide and menthol are among the remedies ...1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.