Therapeutic method for the abrasion of the human skin

• US 3,092,111 A
• Filed: 06/01/1959
• Issued: 06/04/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rose B. Saperstein, Werner K. Stiefel
• Original Assignee: Rose B. Saperstein, Werner K. Stiefel
• Inventors: Saperstein, Rose B., Stiefel, Werner K.
• Application Number:
  US03/817,037
• Time in Patent Office: 1,464 Days
• US Class Current: 606/131
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 33/08 Oxides; Hydroxides
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/06 Ointments; Bases therefor; Other semi-solid forms, e.g. creams, sticks, gels composition of ointments, creams or gels A61K47/00

Claims

1. A METHOD FOR THE THERAPEUTIC ABRASION OF THE HUMAN SKIN WHICH COMPRISES:

REPEATEDLY RUBBING THE SKIN IN A PLURALITY OF DAILY APPLICATIONS WITH A THERAPEUTIC COMPOSITION HAVING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PASTE, WHICH COMPRISES ESSENTIALLY A SUSPENSION OF AN INORGANIC ABRASIVE WHICH IS CHARACTERIZED BY A HARDNESS GREATER THAN 7 AS MEASURED BY MOHS'"'"''"'"' INDEX, BY BEING NON-PIEZOELECTRIC AND BY HAVING A PARTICLE SIZE WITHIN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 125 MICRONS TO ABOUT 710 MICRONS, IN A NON-OLEAGINOUS PASTE COMPRISING A SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENT AND A SOLVENT THEREFOR WHICH IS NON-POISONOUS AND NON-IRRITATING TO THE SKIN, AND REPEATING THE SAID DAILY APPLICATIONS UNTIL DEYNESS, REDNESS AND DESQUAMATION OF THE SKIN OCCUR, WITH INTERRUPTIONS OF THE DAILY APPLICATIONS AT SUCH TIMES AS THE SKIN BECOMES IRRITATED, UNTIL THE IRRITATION DISAPPEARS.