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Crude “unwhizzed” naphthalene, produced by coke-oven plants, affords the most effective base, and may be conveniently mixed into paste form by the addition of soft soap or some grease, such as vaseline, in the proportion of 10 to 20 per cent … When it is necessary to use an anti-lice preparation on a hair-clad surface the use of vaseline, to which has been added ½ per cent. of veratrine dissolved in 5 per cent. of benzene, may be recommended.

Hellebore�n exercises on the heart an action similar to that of digitalis, but more powerful, accompanied by at first quickened and then slow and laboured respiration; it irritates the conjunctiva, and acts as a sternutatory, but less violently than veratrine.

The tincture is prepared from the dried rhizome and rootlets of green hellebore, containing the alkaloids jervine, veratrine and veratroidine.

Oculist said weakness was the disease, and rest the remedy—oculist recommended veratrine ointment, frequent refreshing of eyes with wet cloth, cleared his throat every minute, and was an old humbug.

Far more useful, in neuralgias generally, is the external application of aconite or of veratrine.