Bichromate de Potassium
Dublin Core
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.
⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery
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.
⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery
Source
Specimen: Lopezite. Image courtesy of Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum.
Files
Citation
“Bichromate de Potassium,” OnView, accessed March 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18247.