What is "subnitrate"

Usage examples of "subnitrate".

From then on, I carried a bottle of paregoric in one pocket and a bottle of bismuth subnitrate in the other.

I myself had a prescription once for bismuth subnitrate, after a trip to Brazil.

Following this, a small amount of Subnitrate of Bismuth may be snuffed into each nostril.

If the Subnitrate of Bismuth is not to be readily obtained, the use of any other powder such as starch, finely divided and baked so as to be free from a tendency to form starch paste when applied to a mucous surface, is equally good.

Lime water and the subnitrate of bismuth, in twenty-grain doses three or four times a day, are useful to allay irritation.

CHAPTER TWELVE GOING HOME Throughout our time on Guam I continued to go on patrols and to perform my duties as war dog veterinarian with a bottle of paregoric in one back pocket and one of bismuth subnitrate in the other.