Definition of "hydriodate" []

• Iodide (noun)

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• "Having, however, none of the medicines usually employed in skin diseases with us, we tried the local application of lunar caustic, and hydriodate of potash internally; and with such gratifying results, that Mamire wished the patient to be smeared all over with"
• "It is then to be blotted off and dried, after which it is to be washed on both sides with a somewhat weak solution of hydriodate of potash."
• "Treatment -- Blister over the tumor at once; when the glands remain hard and do not suppurate, it may lead to glanders, in which case rub it with iodine ointment, and give internally, hydriodate of potash in daily doses of 10 to 40 grains, combined with gentian and ginger."