Ointments

If you want to avoid the expensive APNO prescription (about $50), you can make up your own from generic ointments from the drugstore, as you need it (my midwife recommended this to me and I found it worked ok); It’s equal parts Nystatin, Antibiotic ointment (a.k.a. polysporin), and hydrocortizone 1%. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In like manner, those who have been in the cabinet of heavenly ointments, that is in holy charity, keep for some time afterwards the scent of it. ❋ 1567-1622 (1884)

"Currently the inpatient medications such as ointments, inhalers, eye drops, and other bulk items are being disposed of upon patient discharge." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "ointments" and "onguents," for promoting the growth of whiskers and moustaches, are either perfumed and colored lard, or poisonous compounds, which contain quick lime, or corrosive sublimate, or some kindred substance. ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

The "ointments" and "unguents," for promoting the growth of whiskers and moustaches, are either perfumed and colored lard, or poisonous compounds, which contain quick lime, or corrosive sublimate, or some kindred substance. ❋ James Dabney McCabe (1862)

Topical delivery such as ointments and drops are fairly ineffective, and delivery via intravitreous injection (an injection into the fluid in the behind the lens in the eye) can be hard on the patient. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Currently the inpatient medications such as ointments, inhalers, eye drops, and other bulk items are being disposed of upon patient discharge. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Doctors applied ointments laced with radium to heal wounds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although no one seemed to realize it at the time, the photo showed a handwritten copy of John Pemberton's original recipe, jotted down by a friend in a recipe book of ointments and medicines. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Now the door opens with a cattail of jingles, the vintage cash register rings up its penny change, and inside, the coughs and sneezes, the addicts slumped in their niches trying to hoodwink the pharmacist by tapping their counterfeit canes, and from the aisles, the fishy smell of vitamins and ointments, where heavy feet pace the cracked wooden floor, wearing a path down to dust, looking for something. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By that, I refer to my life routine -- from what I eat to what I drink and don't drink -- alcohol! to the eye drops and ointments that I insert, to the humidified rooms I inhabit, to the moisturizer and makeup I apply. ❋ Shira Hirschman Weiss (2011)

Pentagrams, voodoo dolls, magical stones and beads, candles, ointments, ritualistic instruments made of hollowed wood and seashells. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

MUMBAI --Indian drug maker Lupin has acquired the worldwide rights for Australia's Goanna brand and the therapeutic oils, rubs and ointments marketed under it. ❋ Dow Jones Newswires Staff (2011)

But "you don't want to put a lot of heavy ointments on," Ceilley cautions. ❋ Unknown (2011)