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.
Dr. Osborne has recorded a good experience of nitric acid in typhoid fever (Lancet, ii., 1862), and Dr. Bailey (U. S.) in intermittents- he prescribed it to relieve profuse sweating, and unexpectedly found a curative effect on the ague: of ninety cases, eighty made a rapid recovery. Dr. Hammond has corroborated his results (Ranking, 1862).
 
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