Other names and synonyms
Lysid.Description Source
Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica - J.H. ClarkePharmacological Group
Description
Ethylene-Ethenyl-diamine. Methylglycoxalidine (Merck). Trituration. Solution.
Nosology
Gout. Lithiasis. Oxaluria. Uric acid diathesis.
Typical features
Lysidin. occurs in red-white crystals. The solution is a thick pinkish liquid. сlifford Mitchel (H. W., xxxiii. 277) has given the 50 per cent. solution in ten-drop doses well diluted in aerated water, thrice daily, in two cases of oxaluria, one recent in a young man, one in an old man and of long standing. In the second case the distressing lumbar pain was removed by a few doses though it had persisted for a number of days.
Dif. diagnostics
Compare: Nitro-mur. ac., Oxal. ac., Sars., Urotrop.