cad'mium

A metallic element, symbol Cd, atomic weight 1 1 1. 6, resembling tin in appearance and zinc in its chemical relations. Its salts are poisonous and little used in medicine, c. i'odide, Cdlj, used externally in ointment in the treatment of chronic skin diseases, glandular enlargements, and chronic arthritis; unguentum cadmii iodid i was formerly official in the B.P. c. sal'icylate occtu:s in colorle tablets; it has been used in the treatment of purulent ophthalmia, c. sul'- phate occurs as colorle j-hombic cry.stals; it is an irritant astringent and has been employed locally in the treatment of gonorrhea and corneal opacities, in solutions of gr. i in g 1-4.