This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
Dr. Waring says that for this almost incurable disease arsenic is still highly esteemed in India, and Dr. Benet (formerly of Lahore) records benefit from the Tanjore pill (Gazette des Hopitaux, December, 1842). The external application of arsenious acid is also reported to have cured (Dublin Medical Press, 1864), but this must be exceptional.
 
Continue to: