Kali Permanganicum

Permanganate of Potash. 2KMnO 4 .

Proved by H. C. Allen. See Allen's Encyclopædia, vol. 5, p. 351 .

CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.

• Ulcerated throat , Woodgate, Hom. Rev., vol. 12, pp. 151, 152 ; Diphtheria (2 cases), Sprague, A. H. O., vol. 4, p. 360 ; Allen, A. H. O., vol. 3, p. 352 ; Nichol ; Œhme's Therap., p. 45 ; B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 386.

PALATE AND THROAT [13]

Sanious discharge from nares.

Tonsils and soft palate swollen and inflamed ; patches of whitish ulceration on tonsils ; pain in swallowing ; glands of neck tender. θ Ulcerated throat.

Tonsils swollen, and on each patches of ulceration of yellowish color ; much pain internally and externally.

Diphtheria, with ulceration, and gangrenous suppuration with fetid odor.

Violent headache ; throat swollen and painful, profuse salivation ; cervical glands swollen and painful ; fauces covered with peculiar wash leather, greyish membrane ; breath offensive from beginning, and thin, watery, sanious fluid escaping from nares excoriating upper lip ; dark colored offensive diarrhœa ; vomiting ; fluids taken by mouth return through nose ; general prostration. θ Diphtheria.

Comatose state ; prostration extreme ; nares completely plugged, fetor intolerable ; pulse intermitting. θ Diphtheria.

Pharynx swollen very much and covered with a yellowish membrane ; high fever ; unable to speak or swallow ; pulse 135 ; furred tongue ; fetid breath. θ Diphtheria.

Pharynx covered with yellowish pseudo-membrane, not very firmly attached ; extreme fetor of breath ; inability to swallow ; pulse 140 and feeble ; great prostration. θ Diphtheria.

Underneath a fetid, scab-like membrane considerable erosion of mucous membrane. θ Diphtheria.

Odor of breath unbearable ; fluids taken by mouth returned by nose ; general and excessive prostration ; great dyspnœa ; foul diphtheritic exudations all over fauces.

COUGH [27]

Expectoration very fetid.

STAGE OF LIFE, CONSTITUTION [47]

Girl, æt. 3 ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 6, suffering one week ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 7 ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 9, stout build ; diphtheria.

Girl, æt. 16 ; ulcerated throat.

Woman, æt. 25, cook ; ulcerated throat.