This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Iron is one of the numberless remedies recommended for cholera, but I have very little personal experience of its use: it would, of course, not be depended upon alone, and Robiquet has reported a number of successful cases treated by the citrate and by reduced iron with quinine; frictions, and warmth, and nutriment being also conjoined (Jour-nal de Medicine, October, 1873; Practitioner, vol. xi., p. 452).
 
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