Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . ght solubility. It is much used for thetreatment of acute rheumatism, just as salicylate of soda isused. Salicylic Acid is a white substance in fine crystals, of sweetishtaste, and sparingly soluble in water. It is derived from salicine,and is contained also in oil of wintergreen, oil of the sweet birch, and in various other is also produced in largequantities by the action ofcarbonic acid gas upon car-bolic acid. When producedin the latter manner it ism
Health knowledge : a thorough and concise knowledge of the prevention, causes, and treatments of disease, simplified for home use . ght solubility. It is much used for thetreatment of acute rheumatism, just as salicylate of soda isused. Salicylic Acid is a white substance in fine crystals, of sweetishtaste, and sparingly soluble in water. It is derived from salicine,and is contained also in oil of wintergreen, oil of the sweet birch, and in various other is also produced in largequantities by the action ofcarbonic acid gas upon car-bolic acid. When producedin the latter manner it ismuch cheaper than whenextracted from plants,though the natural salicylicacid is purer and better. Salicylic acid preventsputrefactive processes, andis therefore used to pre-sence food substances, andalso to saturate surgicalwool, lint, and other dress-ings. It has no odor, likecarbolic acid, but beingnon-volatile it is not so ef-ficient as the latter. Ex-ternally it is used in oint-ments to check various skinaffections due to bacteria,and since it has in additiona softening action on theSassafras Surface of the skin, salicylic. ROSE—SALICINE—SALINES—SASSAFEAS—SAL AMMONIAC 1209 acid plasters are used to remove corns and various other super-ficial overgrowths. Internally salicylic acid causes great irritation of the stomach,and is therefore seldom used, its place being taken for internaladministration by salicylate of soda. Salines are purgatives belonging to the class of salts whichproduce watery evacuations. Sassafras.—This tree is a native of North America and isfound growing plentifully throughout the United States inforests and along the borders of swamps. It possesses propertiesthat are stimulating and alterative, and very good in rheumaticcomplaints and eruptive diseases. The bark and twigs give offa mucilage wMch is valuable in catarrhs and severe attacks ofdysentery. It is given with other drugs as an alterative. Themucilage put in rose-water is good for inflamm
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