Separation/enrichment of Nickel(II) using Potassium Bromide-PAN-Phenolphthalein System

Bromide of Potassium in Writer's Palsy

heard of its being given, though very likely others have tried it, and its effects were, i may say, so startling that I ask you to publish the case. I was consulted recently by an English gentleman on account of that very troublesome affection, writer's spasm, from which he had been suffering for 9 months. He was in good general health, but the spasm of his right hand was so bad whenever be hel...

Reproductive toxicology. Phenolphthalein.

Background: Projections of health and social care need are highly sensitive to assumptions about cohort trends in health and disability. We use a repeated population-based cross-sectional study from the Cambridgeshire centre of the UK Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study to investigate trends in the health of the young-old UK population Methods: Non-overlapping cohorts o...

Sir Charles Locock and potassium bromide.

On 12 May 1857, Edward Sieveking read a paper on epilepsy to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in London. During the discussion that followed Sir Charles Locock, obstetrician to Queen Victoria, was reported to have commented that during the past 14 months he had used potassium bromide to successfully stop epileptic seizures in all but one of 14 or 15 women with 'hysterical' or catamenia...

Fear of phenolphthalein?

Background: Taiwan's primary community care network (PCCN) demonstration project, funded by the Bureau of National Health Insurance on March 2003, was established to discourage hospital shopping behavior of people and drive the traditional fragmented health care providers into cooperate care models. Between 2003 and 2005, 268 PCCNs were established. This study profiled the individual members in...

Bromide of Potassium as an Antidote to Chloroform