THE CHOICE OF OINTMENT VEHICLES IN DERMATOLOGY

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This is one of a series of articles written by eminent clinicians for the purpose of extending information concerning the official medicines. The twenty-four articles in this series have been planned and developed through the cooperation of the U. S. Pharmacopeial Committee of Revision and The Journal of the American Medical Association.—Ed. Unless it be in the domain of surgery, there is no other department of therapeutics in which physical influences determine to so great an extent the success or failure of therapy as in dermatology ; and it certainly behooves the physician to take special interest in dermatology, for nowhere else in medicine do errors in treatment manifest themselves so promptly as they do in skin disease. Chief among the physical influences that govern the effect of remedies is solubility. In dermatology it determines whether the application will stick or not and, as with the postage stamp, the

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