Excerpt from Year-Book of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica, and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journals, From July 1, 1875, to June 30, 1876; With the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference at the Thirteenth Annual Me
Among the substances which during the past year have formed the subjects of pharmaceutical and medical research, salicylic acid has again absorbed the most wide-spread interest. It was indeed to be expected that Professor Kolbe's important discovery would receive the fullest attention at the hands of practical men of science, and that the numerous early publications respecting this subject would in due time be followed by a still more copious literature. The present volume affords abundant evidence of the extensive uses to which salicylic acid may be applied. While a number of writers deal with its antiseptic and antifermentative properties, and the various ways of turning these to practical account, others have endeavoured to augment its usefulness in this respect by the suggestion of suitable solvents. In reference to the latter point, however, it should be borne in mind that an increased solubility has in some instances been attained at the expense of the preservative properties of the solution, as these belong entirely to the acid in the free state and not to its chemical combinations. To an oversight of this fact we may perhaps attribute the unfavourable results which have led a few experimenters to form a comparatively low estimate of the antifermentative action of this preparation. But the utility of salicylic acid is not confined to its industrial and pharmaceutical application, for medical practitioners have recently learnt to regard it as a most valuable addition to the materia medica. It has been used with the greatest success in the treatment of acute rheumatism and diphtheritis; and as an antipyretic generally it is said to be equal, if not superior, to quinine. Nothing, however, is to be expected from it as a remedy for septic?mia, as it must cease to exist in the free state in the blood, the alkalinity of which cannot be overcome by even the largest doses of the acid the organism can bear, and appears to be an essential condition of life. If it be true, as has been asserted, that a considerable portion of the salicylic acid internally administered passes into the urine unchanged, it might be advantageously employed in the antiseptic treatment of diseases of the urinary organs.
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