This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Is placed in the appendix as a test for sulphuric acid.
Occurs in translucent soluble crystals, which have a bitter acrid taste. The solution gives with any soluble sulphate a heavy white precipitate, unaffected by nitric acid.
Carbonate of Baryta is a white insoluble powder.
We have no very accurate observations on these points, but Orfila detected the chloride of barium in the liver, spleen, and kidneys of animals poisoned by it (Annales d'Hygiene, ii., 1842).
 
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