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Physician's Materia Medica on Potassium Chlorate
POTASSIUM CHLORATE
A distinctly poisonous salt to be used therefore with caution. Its most important use is as a gargle in acute pharyngitis; applied locally and taken internally in stomatitis and in mercurial sore mouth; much used in tablets and lozenges for ulcerated mouth and throat. Dose 0.3 to 1.0 Grm. (5 to 15 grs.).1
A distinctly poisonous salt to be used therefore with caution. Its most important use is as a gargle in acute pharyngitis; applied locally and taken internally in stomatitis and in mercurial sore mouth; much used in tablets and lozenges for ulcerated mouth and throat. Dose 0.3 to 1.0 Grm. (5 to 15 grs.).1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.