This section is from the "A Handbook of Useful Drugs" book, by State Medical Examining and Licensing Boards.
Plasters are a class of solid preparations for external use and serve either as simple adhesives or as counter-irritants. The official plasters are practically never used but are replaced by the commercial plasters made on a large scale by machinery, which have as a base a mixture of rubber, with solvents or diluents.
For preparation included in this list see: Emplastrum Belladonnae, under Belladonnae Folia.
 
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