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.
Phosphorus is useful in ulceration of the intestinal mucous membrane, the result of muco-enteritis, dysentery, or other causes, and especially when considerable prostration, restlessness, and emaciation are present. It is well, sometimes, to combine it with a course of arsenic.
 
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