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.
Morbid craving for drink, and alcoholic insomnia, have been controlled by drachm doses of tincture of iron when many other remedies have failed (Medical Times, i., 1875). The sulphate has also given relief in such cases, especially when combined with aromatics.
 
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