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.
Powdered nitrate of lead I have found a remarkably good resource in cases of onychia, and it has quickly benefited when ordinary treatment had failed (Marsh, MacCormac, Scott, etc., British Medical Journal, i., 1874). Professor Perizzi was the first to draw attention to this.
 
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