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Description: | SWEET SP. OF NITRE.
SWEET SPIRIT OF NITRE. MEDICINAL USE - Diaphoretic, Cooling, and Diuretic. Dose - Half, to a tea-spoonful in water. W. WILKINSON, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST, (Late Lynch & Wilkinson,) (FROM SAVORY & MOORE, LONDON,) 263 Cheetham Hill, Opposite Crescent Road.
W. WILKINSON, FROM SAVORY & MOORE, LONDON, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST, CHEETHAM HILL, MANCHESTER.
Glass bottle with glass stopper. Empty. Contained in the wooden medicine chest with brass plate on the lid inscribed 'Sir Edward Parry' lined with red velvet.Label: 'Sweet Sp. Of Nitre.' Second label: 'Sweet Spirit of Nitre. Medicinal Use. - Diaphoretic, Cooling, and Diuretic. Dose. - Half, to a tea-spoonful in water. W. Wilkinson, Pharmaceutical Chemist (Late Lynch & Wilkinson) From Savory & Moore, London. 263, Cheetham Hill, Opposite Crescent Road.' Third label: 'W. Wilkinson, From Savory and Moore, London, Pharmaceutical Chemist, Cheetham Hill, Manchester.' "sweet spirit of nitre" is the old name for ethyl nitrite. The chemical compound ethyl nitrite is an alkyl nitrite. It may be prepared from ethanol. It was sold as an over-the-counter cough remedy in the USA until 1980, when it was banned by the FDA. Bond's Companion to the Medicine Chest, pre-1862, p. 41-2: ?Spirit of Nitre. A tea-spoonful of sweet spirit of nitre, mixed in a tumblerful of water, with a lump of sugar, forms an excellent drink, to quench thirst and produce a gentle moisture on the skin of fevers; it is also a powerful diuretic, and is often very serviceable in gravelly complaints, stranguries, and other affections of the kidneys; it may also be used an antispasmodic and refrigerant; it is an excellent domestic medicine, and the best proof of its efficiency is its popularity. As an anti-spasmodic, it may be usefully administered in hysteria, and hypochondriasis, taken in camphor julep; but it is generally employed as an adjunct to more powerful remedies.?
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