Peptization, definition

The results obtained by MacLeod and by Church show, quite definitely, that the desire of addicts for morphine is not explainable on any sort of psychological basis it is a physiologico-colloidal phenomenon. The efficiency of the bromide ion in peptizing the reversibly coagulated nerve colloids is shown strikingly by Church s first case, for, while imder the influence of sodium bromide, 60 grains of morphine per day were administered. Despite this the cure was effected. 

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