An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers

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A practical Essay on the Use of the Nitrate of Silver. An Essay on the use of Nitrate of Silver in the cure of inflammation, wounds and ulcers. I guess I'm too used to fiendishly complex organic molecules with medicinal uses and so I skate over the inorganic ones like silver nitrate, cisplatin and derivatives etc.

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Unlike cisplatin which is for such a small molecule so selective in targer, I think silver nitrate works in these setting because it's so un selective, it just chews up any organic molecule it encounters. I guess what suprises me about the use in the eye is that in dilute form it's still effective on the bacteria while not eating the eye.

Michelle, is the silver the key ingredient?

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That is, is the nitrate essentially a spectator ion? Also, since silver is the oxidizing agent, then it is reduced, so does that mean that applying this solution leaves behind silver metal? Mark, Yes, the reaction does leave behind reduced silver generally seems to be considered colloidal - but I can't find a good reference.

Thanks Michelle, I am also a geek but with no medical or advanced chemistry background that likes to know why these things work. Perhaps as Mark suggested the silver also has an effective role as an antiseptic eg now used in dressings which gives the treatment extra utility. FYI I had a slight wound on my finger by the lateral not base quick which grew a "proud flesh" blob without skin etc.

The "lunar caustic" worked amazingly quickly, painlessly and effectively, and new skin and quick has repaired the damage. July 22, at Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV 2 years ago in Rule of 6ix. The Lure of the Obscure?

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Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs 7 years ago in Disease Prone. Show 5 Show All. Pages Home About the author Writing Science: Silver linings Email This BlogThis! Yesterday I had a round of minor surgery. When all was said and done, the surgical site was cauterized with what a nineteenth century physician would have called "lunar caustic" -- silver nitrate to a modern chemist or physician.

I have to admit my first geeky thought was, "how does that work? In John Higginbottom, a British physician wrote An essay on the application of the lunar caustic in the cure of certain wounds and ulcers.