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.
The small doses of hydrarg. c. creta just mentioned I have found equally useful in the severe specific sore throat of scarlatina, especially when the cervical glands and adjacent cellular tissue are inflamed and swollen, and when there is ulceration or even a tendency to gangrene.
 
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