Talc
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- Asbestosis, or scarring of the lungs that makes it hard to breathe
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- Lung cancer
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Talc FDA Approved Drugs
Home Remedies for Talc
Apply watermelon rind to the affected area. Dry area and apply talcum powder.Jack | August 12th, 2020
Felter's Materia Medica on Talc
A stearopten (having the nature of a ketone) derived from Cinnamomum Camphora. (Linné), Nees et Ebermeier (Nat. Ord. Lauraceae). China and... / ...edient of tooth powders and pastes and dusting powders for skin diseases. Alone or with zinc oxide, talc, or precipitated chalk it may be used upon bed-sores with decided relief. Such combinations are... / ...due to gaseous distention of the stomach, or to nervous irritability. In occipital headache, from mental strain, or overstudy, small doses of 2
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Talc
Sponge daily with solution of borax containing a little ammonia or sodium bicarbonate to cleanse; follow with antiseptine or other local antiseptic. As dusting powder use zinc oleate with boric acid, or talcum powder with boric and benzoic or salicylic acids.3
Use dusting powder of boric acid and zinc oleate or of talcum with a little salicylic acid and atropine (1-16 gr. to the ounce); oint ment of formalin (10 per cent.).3
References
2) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio.
3) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.