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.
There is some (not cogent) clinical evidence that excess of soda in the blood leads to convulsive action of the nervous system (Laycock: Medical Times, i., 1863; Hunt: Medical Times, 1856); most observers think an excess of little import.
 
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