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.
Buchheim and some modern writers express doubts as to whether sulphur really increases secretion from the bronchial mucous membrane and the skin; but I cannot agree with them, for I have frequently seen an augmentation of these secretions under the use of this remedy. According to Boecker the urinary water and solids are increased in amount under the action of sulphur, but this requires confirmation (Husemann).
 
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