The oleates in cutaneous diseases / by Henry W. Stelwagon.

  • Stelwagon, Henry W. (Henry Weightman), 1853-1919.
Date:
[1884]
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Credit: The oleates in cutaneous diseases / by Henry W. Stelwagon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    may be successfully treated with the application of black wash and the subsequent application of an ointment of oleate of zinc : the wash is to be applied with a sponge or soft rag for several minutes two'or three times daily; after each application has dried, a small quantity of the ointment being gently rubbed over. In some instances, the dis¬ ease seems to be more favorably influenced by the oleate employed as a dusting powder. When such is indicated, the following will prove an eligible formula: R. Pulv. zinci oleatis, Talci veneti, aa iij. Amyli, 3 ij- M. This is to be dusted over the parts several times daily. The same plan of treatment is frequently of advantage in all weeping eczemas. In intertrigo, a dusting powder, such as given above, is very comfort¬ ing. This oleate makes a harmless toilet powder, and combined with talc and calamine, as in the formula below, will make an excellent powder for such purpose : Calaminae prseparatae, 3 ij. Talci veneti, Zinci oleatis, aa 3 vij. Olei rosae, q. s. M. S.—Toilet powder. This last may also be employed as a dusting powder in moist eczema and similar inflammations. In addition to the oleates already named, there are several others which have been employed in cutaneous diseases ; but either they have failed to show any therapeutical effect, or experience in their use has been so limited as to make special mention of them at the present time unnecessary ; these are the oleates of tin, antimony, nickel, cad¬ mium, etc. The oleates of the alkaloids, morphia, aconitia, veratria, etc,, are important, but as their use is confined to other than cutaneous medication, they fall beyond the scope of this paper. Recapitulating, I may say that of all the oleates so far introduced for the treatment of diseases of the skin, the following may be con¬ sidered as possessing therapeutic powers which experience has attested : Oleate of mercury, oleate of zinc, oleate of lead, and oleate of bismuth. The other oleates have as yet failed in adequately supporting any attested claim to curative powers ; further experience in their use may,