Difficulties with supplies

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I know this is a 'chiropody' question but I'm interested as to whether others who practice The Dark Arts are as frustrated as me.It would seem there is a world-wide conspiracy to make life difficult for us or easy for the suppliers.
Betadine ointment nolonger available in this country(UK). I dont want to open a sachet of Inadine every time I'm dressing an ever so slightly raw HD & I dont trust those websites. So on a recent trip to the USA I went on a spending spree in CVS Pharmacy!
Pyrogallol Ointment is becoming more difficult to obtain.Even those that do supply it complain bitterly about its preparation,thats surely the kiss of death! In my 30 years of practice the number of patients suffering a bad reaction is far outweighed by that caused by salicylic acid preparations.
And oh the beloved Sabre E11 blade. Have any of you noticed how variable the quality is now. When I questioned one of the heads of a well-known supplier he insisted the cut was no finer than an ordinary E blade. How long before the sabre blade is as extinct as the sabre toothed tiger!

 

Hi Simon

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...#v=onepage&q=wp ointment carcinogenic&f=false


Direct source
Van duuren, Carcinogenicity of hair dye components J Environ Pathol Toxicol. 1980 Mar;3(4 Spec No):237-51.

Loads a data here
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=03E1FB00-B92F-757C-2C338D91B3DC5556&printFriendly=true

Can't use it on abraded skin

http://chestofbooks.com/health/mate...-Bartholow/Practical-Treatise/Pyrogallol.html

Pyrogallic acid is an active poison, and this property is exhibited as well when administered by the stomach as when applied to an abraded surface on the skin. Caution in its use becomes necessary, therefore, for several instances of fatal poisoning, and numerous cases in which the toxic action was stopped by treatment, have been reported..

Its cocarcinogenic mixed with other chemicals

http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...df43fd34776cfd499834cef56dc862df&searchtype=a

Its haemolytic, toxic, carcinogenic and bioaccumulative.

Don't have nightmares.


Just some recent references on WP (Wheatgerm & Pyrogallic acid.)

I think that is why you will find it was, if I understand correctly, withdrawn from use some years ago ??

Cheers
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