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Definition of Seidlitz powders
1. Noun. An effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic.
Generic synonyms: Aperient, Cathartic, Physic, Purgative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seidlitz Powders
Literary usage of Seidlitz powders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1873)
"Procter read a paper on Commercial seidlitz powders, by Mr. Charles W. ...
I have put up seidlitz powders for forty years, and I never measured one yet. ..."
2. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"seidlitz powders the dividing of the powder is performed by using the ...
Some years since an investigator weighed seidlitz powders obtained from the ..."
3. Practical therapeutics by Edward John Waring (1866)
"It should be given largely diluted, and may be advantageously administered in
the form of seidlitz powders (Sodre Pot. ..."