As an antiseptic and deodorizer for disinfecting newly cut or old foul smelling wounds and for surgical purposes one drachm to half an ounce of the drug to one pint of water.
As an eye wash use about one in two thousand to one in one thousand.
For uterine injections use one in five thousand to one in two thousand.
As an antidote for opium, morphine or weed-poisoning it can be administered by the mouth or hypodermically. When given for these purposes the amount of potassium permanganate should equal that of the poison taken.
QUSSIA—BITTER WOOD
Qussia is obtained from chips or shavings from a tall tree 70 to 100 feet high.
Habitat.—Jamaica and other West Indian Islands.
Properties.—Qussia has no odor, but an intensely bitter taste, dependent on a neutral crystalline principle, quassin. There is also a volatile oil, but no tannin.