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Physician's Materia Medica on Acid Acetic
ACID ACETIC
Glacial Acetic Acid is caustic; used accordingly to destroy warts or exuberant granulations. The diluted acid is used to arrest hemor rhages and as a lotion to prevent night sweats. The official prepa-- rations are; Glacial Acetic Acid, containing about 99 per cent.; Acetic. Acid, 36 per cent., and Dilnted Acetic Acid, 6 per cent. of ab solute acid.1
Glacial Acetic Acid is caustic; used accordingly to destroy warts or exuberant granulations. The diluted acid is used to arrest hemor rhages and as a lotion to prevent night sweats. The official prepa-- rations are; Glacial Acetic Acid, containing about 99 per cent.; Acetic. Acid, 36 per cent., and Dilnted Acetic Acid, 6 per cent. of ab solute acid.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.