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314 DENTAL MEDICINE.

seed oil Svij)—is a valuable application to burns, scalds and in
smallpox.
Dental Uses.—In dental practice lime water is a useful agent
in the form of a gargle, where the secretions of the mouth are
viscid and fetid, and especially where the teeth are soft in struc-
ture and exceedingly sensitive, owing to the condition of the oral
fluids, and especially in acrid mucous secretions, which act readily
on teeth deficient in earthy constituents. For young patients, the
use of lime water is very beneficial to the teeth, owing to an
acid condition of the oral fluids, common to an early period
of life. It is also useful where the teeth are very sensitive,
on account of the recession of the gum and absorption of the
process.
When lime water is applied to inflamed mucous membrane, or
to suppurating surfaces, it arrests secretion. It is also useful in
sickness and irritability of the stomach during dentition ; also to
relieve the superficial ulceration of the mucous membrane of the
mouth, caused by the acid eructations attending dyspepsia, in the
proportion of one part of lime water to two or three of milk.
Syrup of the Lacto-phosphate of Lime.— Syrupus Calcii
Lacto-phosphatis— is composed of precipitated phosphate of cal-
cium, 22 parts ; lactic acid, parts ; orange-flower water, 80
33
parts; sugar, 600 parts; hydrochloric acid, water of ammonia
and water, each, a sufficient quantity.
Dose.— f5j to fSj.
This syrup is especially useful in rickets, mollities ossium,
delayed union of fractures, caries and necrosis in bone, anemia
of nursing mothers, mammary abscesses or boils, carbuncles,
chronic bronchitis, leucorrhcea, early decay in the teeth in chil-
dren, etc.
CALX CHLORATA—CHLORINATED LIME.
CHLORIDE OF LIME.
Formula.—CaCUO.
Derivation.—Chloride of Lime is obtained by passing chlo-
rine over hydrate of lime till saturation is effected. It is in the
form of a grayish-white substance, either in powder or friable