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 similar lotion will often relieve itching in papular and neurotic diseases, such as lichen and prurigo; it may be conjoined with prussic acid, or with the liquor carbonis detergens.
 
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