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Ointments and Oleates in Diseases of the Skin. 



— BY — 



cJOHN \J. SI-1'QEMAKErVa.M., M.D., 



Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases 

 of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc. 



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The accompanying Table of Contents will give a general idea of the work : 

 ryry M"i'h tT<rrPi. Part I. — History and Origin. Part II.— Process of Manufacture. Part 

 ill, — Physiological Action of thr Oleates. Part IV. — Therapeutic Effect of the Oleates. 

 Part V. — Ointments: Local Medication of Skin Diseases. — Antiquity of Ointments. — Different Indi- 

 cations for Ointments, Powders, Lotions, etc. — Information about Ointments: Scanty, Scattered, and 

 Insufficient, — Fats and Oils: Animal and Vegetable. — Their Chemical Composition. — Comparative 

 Permeability of Oils into Skin ; of Animal, of Vegetable. Incorporation of Medicinal Substances into 

 Fats: (i) Mode of Preparation, (2) Vegetable Powders and Extracts, (3) Alkaloids, (4) Mineral Sub- 

 stances, (5) Petroleum Fats ; Chemical Composition; Uses and Disadvantages. — List of Officinal Oint- 

 ments. — Indications, — Substances often Prescribed Extemporaneously in Ointment Form. — Indications. 

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CRITICISMS OF FIRST EDITION. 



The profession in both countries is deeply in- 

 debted to Dr. Shoemaker for his excellent work in 

 this department of medicine. — William. Whitla, 

 M.D. (Q.U.I.). 



It is the most complete exposition of their action 

 which has yet appeared. They are very valuable 

 accessions to the materia medica, and should be 

 familiar to every practitioner. — Medical and Sur- 

 gical Reporter. 



To those of our readers who wish to learn the 

 therapeutic effects of a class of preparations which 

 are destined to grow in favor as their merits be- 

 come more generally known, we commend this 

 book. — Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal 

 Diseases. 



No physician' pretending to treat skin diseases 

 should be without a copy of this very instructive 

 little book.— Canada Medical Record, 



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