In clinical practice external applications have two important aims: 1. Immediate relief External therapeutic measures are sometimes essential for immediate relief and in some cases are the only means necessary. The same may be said as regards to internal measures for some maladies. A happy blending of the two is the usual procedure. 2. To hasten relief External treatment, seeks to hasten the repair when possible, to palliate when necessary and to destroy if essential. This book can be called as Materia Medica of External Applications. It gives complete information on preparing different external applications like lintments ointmenst etc. in one`s own dispensary. Clinical Index section has illustrations and photographs of external conditions where external applications can be used.
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