On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
Date:
1876
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Credit: On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    namely, that glycerole of the subacetate of lead is a far more generally useful application for chronic eczema than either the benzoated oxide of zinc oint- ment, the calamine and oxide of zinc lotion, or the unguentum diachyli. One disadvantage of the more popular two of these—namely, the two ointments— is that no variation of their strength seems to have been contemplated by those who have ad- vocated them ; nor does such an idea appear to have presented itself to any of the numerous adopters of these two preparations. It is accepted as of the natural order of things that benzoated zinc ointment must consist of one part of oxide of zinc to five parts and a half of benzoated lard, just as water must consist of certain inflexible proportions of oxygen and hydrogen. I never heard of any one who thought of tampering with these, the only pos- sible (?) proportions. Just so with the unguentum diachyli. The composition of this preparation must have less variation than even that of the proverbially constant mariner’s compass. It must consist of equal parts of diachylon-plaster and oil, or else, • equivalently, of one part of litharge to four parts of oil, according to the manner in which it may be chosen to make it. Now, if I were to be called