. An introduction to practical pharmacy [microform] : designed as a textbook for the student and as a guide to the physician and pharmaceutist : with many formulas and prescriptions . 480 EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS. The difference between a cerate and an ointment is in their rela-tive firmness and fusibility; the former is designed to be adhesiveat the temperature of the body, so as to be applied in the form of adressing or sort of plaster; the latter is intended to be rubbed uponthe surface or applied by inunction; this distinction is, however,not absolute, and the two classes nearly approach each
. An introduction to practical pharmacy [microform] : designed as a textbook for the student and as a guide to the physician and pharmaceutist : with many formulas and prescriptions . 480 EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS. The difference between a cerate and an ointment is in their rela-tive firmness and fusibility; the former is designed to be adhesiveat the temperature of the body, so as to be applied in the form of adressing or sort of plaster; the latter is intended to be rubbed uponthe surface or applied by inunction; this distinction is, however,not absolute, and the two classes nearly approach each other in pro-perties ; the name cerate is derived from cera, wax, and most of thecerates, as also some of the ointments, contain this ingredient. The medicinal ingredients which enter into these classes of pre-parations are very numerous; indeed, almost every kind of medicinecapable of exercising a topical effect may be prescribed in this unctuous ingredients used in ointments are chiefly bland andunirritating fats and fixed oils, with more or less wax ; the readeris referred, for some account of these, to pages 271—276. Lard and suet resemble each other in most of
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