Aluminium Aceto-tartrate Merck.
Lustrous, yellowish granules; sour-astringent taste.—Sol. freely but very slowly in water; insol. in alcohol, ether, glycerin.—Energetic Disinfectant and Astringent.—Uses: Chiefly in diseases of the air-passages.—Applied in 1/2 to 2% solutions; or as snuff, with 1/2 its weight of powdered boric acid; 50% solut. for chilblains.
Aluminium Sulphate Merck.—U.S.P.—Pure.
White lumps or powd.; odorl.; sweet-astringent taste.—Sol. in 1.2 parts water.—External Antiseptic, Caustic, Astringent.—Uses: Fetid ulcers, fetid discharges; enlarged tonsils, scrofulous and cancerous ulcers; endometritis; nasal polypi, etc.—Applied in 1: 20 to 1: 100 solut., or concentrated solut.
Aluminium & Potassium Sulphate Merck.—(Alum, U.S.P.)—C.P. Cryst. or Powd.; Pure, Burnt; and in Pencils (Plain or Mounted).
Dose: 5—15 grn.; emetic, 1—2 teaspoonfuls.
Adonidin Merck.
Adonin.—Yellowish-brown, very hygroscopic, odorl. powd.; intensely bitter.—Sol. in water, alcohol; insol. in ether, chloroform.—Cardiac Stimulant, mild Diuretic.—Uses: Heart diseases, especially mitral and aortic regurgitation, and relieving precordial pain and dyspnea.—Dose: 1/16—1/4 grn. 4 t. daily, in pill, or solut. in chloroform water with ammonium carbonate.—Max. D.: 1 grn.
Agaricin Merck.
White powd.; sweet, with bitter after-taste.—Sol. in alcohol; slightly in water, ether, or chloroform.—Antihidrotic.—Uses: Phthisical night-sweats, sweating from drugs.—Dose: 1/4—1 grn.