"Oxalate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the plant used in medicine is the leaf which is acid by virtue of the potassium oxalate which it contains. The decoction is used internally as an antipyretic in fevers and in dysentery. Mistaking the properties of the plant it is given for vesical calculus which, if composed of oxalates, would be increased instead of diminished by the treatment. In fact the salt of sorrel ...
— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera
... "morning sickness" and the nausea of pregnancy, cerium oxalate taken three times a day in doses of five grains each, is ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... exhibited, and their properties described —as gallo-sumach ink, myrabolams ink, Runge's ink, —inks in which the tanno-gallate of iron was kept in solution by nitric, muriatic, sulphuric, and other acids, or by oxalate of potash, chloride of lime, etc. The myrabolams was recommended as an ink of some promise for durability, and as the cheapest ink it was possible to manufacture. All ordinary inks, however, were shown to have certain drawbacks, and the author endeavored to ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho |
