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 chronic indolent ulceration the perchloride is a good stimulant; also the carbonate, finely powdered, has been applied in substance to old and excavated ulcers of the leg, and with good bandaging has succeeded well (Lancet, i., 1862). The salicylate of iron is said to make a useful lotion (Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1877).
 
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