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  • It causes some pain, so that a sedative should be added.
  • Such a cough is relieved by the sedative action on the central nervous system.
  • In China it was an old internal remedy for leprosy and struma, and is accredited with stimulant, tonic, sedative, astringent and vulnerary properties.
  • The sedative effect of lead lotion in pruritus is well known.
  • Hence bromide of potassium - or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action - is used as a hypnotic, as the standard anaphrodisiac, as a sedative in mania and all forms of morbid mental excitement, and in hyperaesthesia of all kinds.
 
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