Calcium Chloride.
CHARACTERISTICS.
The tuberculous and pre-tuberculous state. Scrofulous swellings of lymphatic glands. Dyspeptic disorders of scrofulous children. Restless sleep, capricious appetite, irregular stools, foul breath and enlarged tonsils. Gastric catarrh and fermentative dyspepsia.
TOXIC EFFECTS.
Excessive use of lime salts produces great debility and wasting of tissues.
DOSE.
Calcii chloridum, 10-20 gr. for adults, 2-3 gr. for children. To be given in milk, simple elixir, or diluted freely in water.
THERAPEUTIC USES.
Dyspepsia disorders of scrofulous children. Restless sleep, capricious appetite, irregular stools, foul breath, and enlarged tonsils.
Gastric catarrh and fermentative dyspepsia.
Tabes mesenterica.
Tuberculosis.
Suppuration of lymphatic glands.
Scrofulous swellings of lymphatic glands. Glandular enlargements of the neck in children, where the glands seem massed together and are almost of stony hardness.
Haemophilia.