Lotio Glycerini.—Glycerin Lotion.

Related entry: Glycerinum (U. S. P.)—Glycerin.

Preparation.—Take of glycerin, 1 ounce; distilled water, ½ pint. Mix.

Action and Medical Uses.—This lotion has been recommended in eczema, lichen, and other cutaneous diseases; also as an application to the meatus externus in cases of deafness owing to want of secretion of cerumen.


King's American Dispensatory, 1898, was written by Harvey Wickes Felter, M.D., and John Uri Lloyd, Phr. M., Ph. D.