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Physician's Materia Medica on Glyceroplasma
GLYCEROPLASMA
A safe and eflicient depleting agent, accomplishing painlessly what was formerly effected by application of blisters, viz. relief of tension in inflammatory swellings by local abstraction of the watery constituents of the blood. The preparation consists simply of pure glycerin incorporated with a mineral silicate, previously well dried, with antiseptics such as methyl salicylate and boric acid added to increase the efliciency of the application. It has the consistence of soft putty and is applie1
A safe and eflicient depleting agent, accomplishing painlessly what was formerly effected by application of blisters, viz. relief of tension in inflammatory swellings by local abstraction of the watery constituents of the blood. The preparation consists simply of pure glycerin incorporated with a mineral silicate, previously well dried, with antiseptics such as methyl salicylate and boric acid added to increase the efliciency of the application. It has the consistence of soft putty and is applie1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.