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42 DENTAL MEDICINE.

Creasote forms an explosive compound, yfconite should never be
given in any vehicle except water.
" Silver Nitrate^ and Lead Acetate and Subacetate^ although in-
compatible with almost everything, may be combined with
Opium : the latter forming with Opium a compound which, al-
though insoluble, is therapeutically active as a lotion.
" Corrosive Sublimate is incompatible with almost everything,
and should be given in Simple Syrup ; even the Compound Syrup
of Sarsaparilla is said to decompose it.
" Tannic Acid^ and substances containing it, are incompatible
with albumen and gelatin. Tannic Acid^ Iodine and the soluble
Iodides are incompatible with the alkaloids and substances contain-
ing them, and with most soluble metallic salts. Vegetable In-
fusions are generally incompatible with metallic salts.
" Glucosides^ such as Santonin and Colocynthin, should not be
prescribed with free acids or Emulsin.
" Dangerous Compounds^ because poisonous, are : Potassic Io-
dide with Potassic Chlorate ; Hydrocyanic acid or Potassium
Cyanide with metallic Hydrates, Carbonates, Sub-nitrates or Sub-
chlorides, as Bismuth, Carbonate or Nitrate or Calomel.
" Explosions would result from the combination of powerful
oxidizers with readily oxidizable substances, as Potassium Chlo-
rate or Permanganate with Tannin, Sugar, Sulphur, Sulphides,
Vegetable powders. Glycerine, Alcohol, Tinctures or Ether."