PRUSSIC ACID AS A REMEDY IN GONORRHŒA.

Turmeric Flower as a Remedy for Gonorrhœa

Sib,?In your issue dated 1st July I have had the opportunity of reading two articles regarding injections of quinine and cinchona into the urethra as the best remedies for gonorrhoea, and this induces me to send you this notice of a specific, which I have lately discovered, as being a useful medicine in that disease, and hope your readers will kindly try it and let the profession know the resul...

Nitrate and Prussic Acid Toxicity in Forage

Cooperative Extension Service • Kansas State University • Manhattan Nitrate toxicity Nitrate is a natural product formed from the oxidation of organic compounds. Most of the soil nitrogen absorbed by plant roots is in nitrate form. Normally, nitrate in a plant is rapidly converted to amino acids by the enzyme nitrate reductase. This reduction requires energy from sunlight, adequate water, nutri...

On Sulphurous Acid as a Remedy for Cholera

In the first place, the qualities of sulphurous acid are worthy of note. "It is a powerful deoxidising agent, disinfecting and antiseptic, and destructive to vegetable life. It destroys the germs of fungi in wounds, of parasitic lichen on the skin." {Vide Squire's Companion to the British Pharmacopoeia, Art. Sulphurous acid.) Should cholera be due ^as some have supposed) to the presence of a fi...

Management of Nitrate and Prussic Acid in Forage Crops

The two factors of drought conditions and export markets are focusing recent attention on nitrates and prussic acid in forages. During normal years, nitrate-nitrogen (NO3-N) taken up by crops is quickly converted into protein. When forages grow under drought stress, however, they tend to accumulate nitrate. Alternative forages such as sorghums and sudans tend to accumulate even higher levels, w...

Goa Powder as a Remedy in Psoriasis