Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 20: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June, 1878 On the Antiseptic and Therapeutic Qualities of Boracic acid-g. Polli has reported at a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Lombardy researches in which urine, beer, meat, eggs, blood, and flesh were treated with boracic acid and borax for thirty days during the summer-time, and were found still to remain fresh and unfermented; whilst in control experiments without the addition of the salt, but partly with. The addition of sulphite of soda, the fluids passed into a state of complete decomposition in the course of fifteen days. The energetic disinfecting property possessed by boracic acid and borax, and the facility with which these substances can be absorbed into the economy, led Polli to recommend their application in diseases in regard to the infectious nature of which no doubt exists, or in which septic conditions readily arise. He adduces several examples in which the fever of tuberculosis was diminished. In malaria Professor Visconti saw no good results, whilst another observer found many. In chronic cystitis the muco - purulent precipitate disappeared in a few days, and bad suppurating wounds recovered quickly under its external use. The dose he recommends is seventy-five grains of boracic acid and 150 grains of borax per diem. (pamphlet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.