This section is from the book "A Treatise On Therapeutics, And Pharmacology Or Materia Medica Vol2", by George B. Wood. Also available from Amazon: Part 1 and Part 2.
This has been so fully treated of among the arterial stimulants, that it is unnecessary to say more, in this place, than that it may be given as a stimulant antacid, under circumstances similar to those which call for the aromatic spirit. The dose of it is from two or three to ten or fifteen grains; the larger dose being justifiable when there is much acid, from the rapidity with which it is neutralized. This also must be given with a large proportion of water; and its acrimony may be somewhat blunted by the admixture of mucilage of gum arabic, or sugar.
 
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