Calcarea chlorinata
Calcium hypochlorite / chloride of lime · Mineral
Clarke
Key symptoms
- Boils and carbuncles (local application)
John Henry Clarke
A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1900
Chlorinated Lime. CaOCl2. Hypochlorate of lime with Chloride of Calcium and a varying amount of Hydrate of Lime.
Clinical
Boils. Carbuncles.
Characteristics
This preparation has only been used as a local application, for boils and carbuncles chiefly, in the form of the Liquor Calcis Chloratæ of the British Pharmacopœia.
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