This section is from the book "A Manual Of Practical Therapeutics", by Edward John Waring. Also available from Amazon: A Manual of Practical Therapeutics.
Dr. Marshall Hall observes, that both mental emotion and gastric irritation are apt to induce excessive secretion of Hydrochloric Acid in the stomach, which is of itself a frequent cause of the supervention of an attack. This is effectually removed by an antacid, and the Carbonate, or Bicarbonate of Potash, in doses of j. - 3ss., is the one he chiefly recommends.
(See PotassAe Nitras.) In Buzzing in the Ears, &c, produced by accumulations of hardened wax in the Ear, M. Triquet recommends the ears to be syringed with a solution of PotassAe Carb. (grs. iij. - xx. ad Aq. fj), the ears being stopped at night with cotton, in order that a portion of the liquid may be retained.
 
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