SODA

and its various ap! emer are very similar to | The spasm itself is usually painful, and may cause serious potash, though not so readily ebsorbed into the circulation. | results; thes spasm of the muscles around the top of the Bicarbonate of soda, in half teaspoonful doses, in a little | windpipe causes suffocation by closuro of the windpipe.: water, offen relieves heart-burn; two ounces of washing Epes of the bronchi causes the symptoms of an attack: soda to a footbeth of hot water is useful in allaying the | of asthma, and £0 on. Beams may be either i | pain of gout in the foot; tartrate of soda, in the form of | as in lock-jaw, or of short duration, but tequeatly repeated, 4 a Seidlitz powder, is a useful aperient. 63 in an epileptic fit. Spasm of the muscles of ab- [s. 411]