Kala-Azar : A Preliminary Note on the Treatment by the Intramuscular Injection of a Special Preparation of Sodium Antimonyl Tartrate
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When the compilers of the British Pharmacopoeia laid clown the standard of purity necessary for potassium antimonyl tartrate, they expected that the drug would be used only for external application or in minute doses by the mouth, and they did not anticipate that it would be poured in comparatively large doses directly into the patient's circulatory system. Had they done so, they would doubtless have laid down a very different standard. Since the antimony treatment for leish-
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