Kali Permanganicum

Permanganate of Potash. 2 KMnO^.

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

Clinical Authorities. — Ulcerated throat, Woodgate, Horn. Kev., 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, GEhme's Therap., p. 45 ; B. J. H., vol. 34, p. 386.

^^ Throat. iSanious discharge from nares.

■ Tonsils and soft palate swollen and inflamed; patches

of whitish ulceration on tonsils; pain in swallowing; glands of neck tender. ^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 diarrhoea; vomiting; fluids taken by mouth return through nose; general prostration. ^Diphtheria.

■ Comatose state; prostration extreme; nares completely

plugged, fetor intolerable ; pulse intermitting. ^Diph- theria.

■ Pharynx swollen very much and covered with a yellow-

ish membrane; high fever; unable to speak or swallow; pulse 135; furred tongue; fetid breath. ^Diphtheria.

■ Pharynx covered with yellowish pseudo-membrane, not

very firmly attached ; extreme fetor of breath ; inability to swallow; pulse 140 and feeble; great prostration. ^Diphtheria.

■ Underneath a fetid, scablike membrane considerable ero-

sion of mucous membrane. ^Diphtheria.

■ Odor of breath unbearable; fluids taken by mouth re-

turned by nose ; general and excessive prostration ; great dyspnoea; foul diphtheritic exudations all over fauces. ^ Cough. I I Expectoration very fetid. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Girl, set 3; diphtheria. Girl, set. 6, suffering one week ; diphtheria.

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Girl, set. 7; diphtheria. Girl, set. 9, stout build; diphtheria. Girl, set. 16; ulcerated throat. Woman, set. 25, cook ; ulcerated throat.