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.
Small cystic or fatty tumors may be cured by inducing moderate suppuration, and one of the best means for this purpose is the injection into their substance of a few drops of solution containing 1 part of silver nitrate in 6 or 8 of water; this mode of treatment was specially introduced by Luton, who termed it "parenchymatous substitution."
 
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