If the child be troubled with pruritus, use fomentations, and anoint with
plenty of refined oil, in which a little wax has been melted.
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COMMENTARY. See Galen (Hyg. v); Oribasius (Synops. v, 8); Avicenna (i,
3, 1); Haly Abbas (Pract. i, 20); Rhases (de Morb. Infant, c. 19);
Alsaharavius (Pract. xxvi, 25.)