This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
A lotion containing the dilute acid, 1 or 2 dr. to 8 oz. of rose-water, is sometimes a useful stimulant to the affected part, and an acid foot-bath tends to relieve the internal congestions with which the disorder is generally associated.
 
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