Salicylate Definition

Salicylate Sentence Examples

• The salicylate of colchicine is stable in water and may be given in doses of about one-thirtieth of a grain.

• When boiled with calcium chloride and ammonia, salicylic acid gives a precipitate of insoluble basic calcium salicylate, C 6 H 4 ‹ 0 2 i Ca, a reaction which serves to distinguish it from the isomeric metaand para-hydroxybenzoic acids.

• Whatever drug of this group be taken, the product absorbed by the blood is almost entirely sodium salicylate.

• Sodium salicylate circulates in the blood unchanged, decomposition occurring in the kidney, and probably in tissues suffering from the Diplococcus rheumaticus of Poynton and Paine.

• It has now been established that, provided the kidneys be healthy, natural salicylic acid, sodium salicylate prepared from the natural acid, and salicin, are not cardiac depressants.