Potassium Bicarbonate Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Cryst. or Powder.
Sol. in water.—Diuretic, Antilithic, Antacid.—Uses: Dyspepsia, dropsy, lithiasis, sour stomach, jaundice, etc. Usually taken effervescent with tartaric or citric acid.—Dose:20—60 grn.
Potassium Bichromate Merck.—U.S.P.—C.P., Cryst.
Sol. in 10 parts water.—Corrosive, Astringent, Alterative.—Uses: Intern., syphilis; extern., sweating feet, tubercular nodules, syphilitic vegetations, and warts.—Dose: 1/16—1/4 grn.—Extern. in 5% solut. for sweating feet; 10% solut. as caustic.—Antidotes: Emetics and stomach pump, followed by soap, magnesia, or alkali carbonates.
Potassium Bisulphate Merck.—C.P., Cryst.
Colorl., more or less moist, plates.—Sol. in water.—Aperient. Tonic.—Uses: Constipation with weak appetite.—Dose: 60—120 grn., with equal weight sodium carbonate.
Potassium Bitartrate Merck.—C.P., Cryst. or Powd.
Cream of Tartar.—Dose: 1—8 drams.
Potassium Bromide.—U.S.P.
Dose: 15—60 grn.