Note 136 — DISSERTATION VI.
Reading edition
Justamond on Cancers, p. 141. This gentleman relates a case, in which, by destroying the skin with lunar caustic, and then applying arsenic, he removed the gland. The arsenic, in this instance, was fused with antimony, in proportion of two parts of the first to one of the last. This was powdered and mixed with equal parts of powdered opium, and made into a liniment with yolk of egg.