Chilblains or Frost Bites. Dissolve 24 grains of Iodoform in 1 ounce of oleic acid, and apply with camel - hair brush. Two applications generally make a permanent cure.
(G) Iodoform lotion, 1 part to 15 water, constantly applied, removes abnormal mammary growths - Breast lumps - Cures House Maid's knee - Purulent Ophthalmia of infants.
(H) Iodoform 1 part, with Collodion 15 parts, mixed and applied night and morning, removes Pleurisy pains and chest pains of consumption.
(I) Iodoform ointment is excellent for Onychia - Bronchocele - Enlargement of the Prostate Gland.
(J) Iodoform powder, being the safest and best of all antiseptics, is the standard dressing for external ulcerations in general. Iodol has been found to be an admirable substitute for Iodoform, having none of the odor or poisonous properties of the latter.
(K) Iodoform on cotton pledgets, inserted into the nose very loosely, in one nostril one night, and into the other the next, thus alternating nightly, is said to cure chronic nasal catarrh - Ozaena. For masking the odor of Iodoform, the oleate of zinc dry, (made by double decomposition) is the desideratum par excellence. Its addition in quantity required is admissible both in the form of ointment and powder. The oil of wintergreen, also the oil of Peppermint, conceals the odor of Iodoform.
Orchitis. Iodoform ointment (2 grains of Iodoform to 30 grains simple ointment) relieves the pain in an hour. Saturating the scrotum with coal oil stops the pain in 5 minutes.