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Show CHLORATE OF POTASSIUM - CAUTION. This article has been very highly recommended, and justly so, for use in diphtheria and diphtheretic [diphtheritic] sore throats and affections; it has also been recommended for a number of other purposes. A little care should be used in its promiscuous or general use. Hospital practice, as well as close observers in practice, are both agreed upon the fact that a great deal of kidney trouble comes from a promiscuous use of chlorate of potash. As a large proportion of the sufferers from diphtheria or irritated sore throat are children of tender age, and who are peculiarly susceptible to any chemical changes or disarrangements, we should guard, by all means in our power, against giving chlorate of potash too freely or for too long a time without cessation, as the kidneys will become overworked, and inflammation, which may result in serious disease, ensue. - Journal of Commerce. |