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Itch Ointment
Washed sulphur, 1½ ounces; chloride of lime, 2 drachms; hog's lard, 4 ounces. Mix and make into an ointment. 5009. Schacht's Glycerine of Starch, vehicle for drugs in preparing ointments and or Plasma. The use of fatty matter as the cerates is sometimes open to objection. The in fat, which consequently acts to a certain remedies introduced are frequently insoluble extent in defending the skin from, instead of facilitating the perfect action of the remedy.
Aqueous remedies are difficult to mix with