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Physician's Materia Medica on Potassium Permanganate
POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE
A powerful oxidizing agent; locally antiseptic, deodorant and caustic; internally emmenagogue (less eflicient and more irritant than manganese dioxide) and gastric antiseptic; hypodermatically. antidote to venom of snakes, also antidote to morphine. Dose, 0.06 to 0.12 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.).1
A powerful oxidizing agent; locally antiseptic, deodorant and caustic; internally emmenagogue (less eflicient and more irritant than manganese dioxide) and gastric antiseptic; hypodermatically. antidote to venom of snakes, also antidote to morphine. Dose, 0.06 to 0.12 Grm. (1 to 2 grs.).1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.