Actions of Liquor Potassoe
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Actions of Liquor Potassoe is a poem written by Arthur Conan Doyle during his studies at the Edinburgh University of Medicine (ca. 1876).
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote several poems on specific medical products (Opium, Tartar Emetic, Quinine, Ether, Arsenic, Corrosive Sublimate, Liquor Potassoe, Mercury...). Probably as a mnemonic technique.
Actions of Liquor Potassoe
Diuretic — and renders the Stomach more placid
A violent poison and famous antacid,
And I seldom have had the good fortune to see a
Drug act so well in a bad gonorrhoea,
Tis an alternative too, and the crabbiest critic
Would scarce dare to blame such an antilithitic
And Garrod maintains that it's worth any ten
Other drugs in the world to all corpulent men.
