Semisolid preparations used topically for protective emollient effects or as a vehicle for local administration of medications. Ointment bases are various mixtures of fats, waxes, animal and plant oils and solid and liquid hydrocarbons.
    

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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.

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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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.