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Physician's Materia Medica on Copper Sulphate
COPPER SULPHATE
Antiseptic, astringent; in minute doses, tonic; in large doses, emetic. Prescribed in chronic diarrhea, and as an antidotal emetic in phosphorus poisoning. Dose, 0.008 to 0.06 Grm. (% to 1 gr.); as an emetic, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.) repeated in 15 minutes if necessary.1
Antiseptic, astringent; in minute doses, tonic; in large doses, emetic. Prescribed in chronic diarrhea, and as an antidotal emetic in phosphorus poisoning. Dose, 0.008 to 0.06 Grm. (% to 1 gr.); as an emetic, 0.3 Grm. (5 grs.) repeated in 15 minutes if necessary.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.