Natrum Sulfovinicum
Natrum Æthylosulfuricum, C2H5
by Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
KSO4 + 2HO.
Preparation , Solutions in water.
Authority.
Rabuteau, Rev. de Thérap. Méd.-Chir., 1871 (Practitioner, 7, 1872, p. 247).
- It purges in relatively feeble doses; 25 grammes, or 5 drachms, are always sufficient; 10 grammes act on children, and sometimes on adults; the number of evacuations varies according to the quantity ingested; with a dose of 20 grammes in three glasses of water, it usually produces four or five stools; and from five to eight in doses of 25 grammes; the effects usually begin to manifest themselves an hour after it has been taken; it is the mildest of saline purgatives.