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Fowler's Solution

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Fowler’s Solution 

a potassium arsenite solution, a medicinal preparation developed by the English physician T. Fowler in 1786. The solution is taken internally as a general tonic in certain forms of anemia, cachexia, myasthenia, and neurasthenia. It is contraindicated in kidney disorders, neurites, pronounced anemia, and dyspeptic diseases.



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It was here that James would take his last breath after prescriptions of Valentine's meat juice, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica invalid food, sulphonal, nitroglycerine, cocaine, phosphoric acid and Fowler's solution of arsenic failed to restore him.
 
 
 
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