This section is from the book "Dental Medicine. A Manual Of Dental Materia Medica And Therapeutics", by Ferdinand J. S. Gorgas. Also available from Amazon: Dental Medicine.
Meditrina is sea-water charged with electricity. It possesses antiseptic and deodorant properties. It is claimed that meditrina enters chemically into combination with the mephitic odors and gases, and in this way causes their destruction. Although it is not as powerful an antiseptic as many other agents of this class, there is no doubt of its being an excellent deodorant.
It has been recommended as useful in putrescent pulp-canals, alveolar pyorrhoea and stomatitis, as a mouth wash, and in all offensive conditions of the oral cavity.
 
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