Definition of Seidlitz powders

1. Noun. An effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid; used as a cathartic.

Exact synonyms: Rochelle Powder, Seidlitz Powder
Generic synonyms: Aperient, Cathartic, Physic, Purgative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seidlitz Powders

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Sega
Segal
Segmentina
Segovia
Segovian
Segovians
Segway
Segways
Sehnsucht
Seidel
Seidel's scotoma
Seidel's sign
Seidlitz mixture
Seidlitz powder
Seidlitz powders (current term)
Seifert fiber space
Seifert fiber spaces
Seifert fibered space
Seifert fibered spaces
Seifert fibre space
Seifert fibre spaces
Seifert fibred space
Seifert fibred spaces
Seifert surface
Seifert surfaces
Seignette's salt
Seigneur de Bayard
Seiji Ozawa
Seiler's cartilage

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. ..."

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