Semi-solid preparation for application to the skin or mucous membranes

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Neobacrin Ointment : the antibiotic ointment in everyday prescription demand because it can be used time and time again.

A sovereign remedy.

Soothe that pain with Anethaine.

Horse-blister ointment / prepared by Richard Hine.

Calvert's Carbolic Ointment : preserve your teeth by using Calvert's Carbolic Tooth Powder.

Cuckoo-pint (arummaculatum) : the second in a series of herb paintings by Ernest Petts.

A soverign remedy.

The "Home" First-Aid Case : Tincture of Iodine.

The crucifixion of Christ; the three Maries lament. Etching by W. Unger after R. van der Weyden.

Saint Agatha. Engraving by J. Coelemans, 1706, after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino, 16--.

Armstrong's Family Health Salve : the great antiseptic healing ointment.

Saint Mary Magdalene. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after T. Viti.

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

Crème Radieuse à la glycérine et au lait de lys: product label. Colour lithograph.

On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface : illustrated with cases / by William Taylor.

Saint Mary Magdalen anoints Christ's feet at the meal of Simon the Pharisee. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.

Tobit is cured of his blindness. Etching after G. Zocchi.

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Ointments

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Images referencing Ointments

Works from the collections

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

Crème Radieuse à la glycérine et au lait de lys: product label. Colour lithograph.

On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface : illustrated with cases / by William Taylor.

Saint Mary Magdalen anoints Christ's feet at the meal of Simon the Pharisee. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.

Tobit is cured of his blindness. Etching after G. Zocchi.

Ointments

Images from the collections

Images referencing Ointments

Works from the collections

A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, his wife observes the scene. Pen drawing after D. Teniers, the younger.

Crème Radieuse à la glycérine et au lait de lys: product label. Colour lithograph.

On a new and successful treatment for febrile and other diseases, through the medium of the cutaneous surface : illustrated with cases / by William Taylor.

Saint Mary Magdalen anoints Christ's feet at the meal of Simon the Pharisee. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck.

Tobit is cured of his blindness. Etching after G. Zocchi.

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