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.
Dr. Fordyce Barker speaks highly of the nitrate of lead (10 to 15 gr. in the ounce of glycerin) as an application to sore nipples (Medical Times, ii., 1873, p. 503).
 
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