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.
Without implying that the following maladies are solely disorders of mucous membranes, it will be found convenient to group them under this heading. The value of arsenic in them is very marked, but is of comparatively recent recognition, and has not yet been noticed in many text-books.
 
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