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.
In this affection I can recommend sulphide of calcium, and especially when ulceration of the cornea is present; it also acts well in scrofulous otorrhoea, and indeed in almost all purulent discharges occurring in children, especially when becoming fetid and obstinate in character.
 
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