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and afterwards rinsed with chloride of zinc solution. He states having 

 thus cured cases in fourteen days. 



Straube lately recommended camphor dissolved in ether, and mixed 

 with three times its weight of vaseline ; this ointment is rubbed into the 

 diseased skin. To check evaporation, the diseased parts are covered 

 with carbolic wadding, and surrounded with flannel bandages. At first 

 the dressing is changed daily, later every two or three days. When there 

 was much itching, Straube gave arsenic internally with success. Moller 

 seems to prefer sulphuric acid and formalin to all other materials. Their 

 application is certainly painful, but the results are generally good. 



