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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Hyperidrosis (of Feet, Arm-pits, Etc)

HYPERIDROSIS (Of feet, arm-pits, etc)
   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.).1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.