Common names: Sal mirabile, or Sal catharticum, Glauber salts. Preparation: Triturations or solutions in water.
Introduction
Potassium sulphate, K2SO4.
Face.
Face red. Features and eyes distorted. Lower lip swollen.
Mouth.
Lips, gum and tongue white. Burning heat in the mouth, stomach and abdomen.
Stomach.
Burning thirst, nausea and vomiting. Vomiting. Repeated vomiting of a whitish substance (after two minutes). Violent pain in the stomach and bowels.
Abdomen.
Tympanitic abdomen, cramp and every indication of approaching peritonitis. Abdomen very tense. Severe colic.
Stool.
Purging; the nurse declared that much of the medicine passed undissolved, and was found at the bottom of the night-stool. Violent purging.
Pulse.
Pulse scarcely perceptible.
Extremities
Cramps of upper and lower extremities.
Fever
Heat. Cold sweat (after two minutes).