3. Powdered Boric Acid and Salicylic Acid; Equal parts.
To be used as a dusting powder on the sweating parts.
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3. One per cent solution of potassium permanganate or permanganate of potash is good applied to the parts.
CALLOSITY or Callositas.—This is circumscribed yellowish-white, thickened and horny patches of one of the layers of the cuticle (epidermis).
Causes—They come as the result of the occupation or pressure, and sometimes without any seeming cause.
Symptoms.—They occur mostly on the hands and feet and are usually sensitive.
PHYSICIANS' TREATMENT, for Callosity or Callositas.—Remove the cause of the horny masses. The latter is done by soaking them with prolonged hot water baths and scraping off the mass afterwards. This should be continued and done frequently.
Salicylic Acid 30 grains
Collodion 4 ounce
Mix and apply with a camel's hair pencil.