Bichromate de Potassium

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Title

Bichromate de Potassium

Description

Latin Name: Potassium Bichromate (this inscription is French)

Common Name: Potassium bichromate, or red chromate of potash

Classification: Caustic and alterative

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: An irritant caustic, poisonous in overdoses. In the correct dose it is used as a treatment for syphilis, with a powder or solution being applied to syphilitic warts, as well as a pill being given orally to treat the internal disease. In large doses it is an emetic.

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Source

Specimen: Lopezite. Image courtesy of Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum.

Files

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Citation

“Bichromate de Potassium,” OnView, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18247.