Notes on the treatment of chronic skin diseases : with a report of 1,000 cases treated at the Skin Hospital, Hyde Road, Manchester / by H. Stanley Gale.

  • Gale, H. Stanley (Henry Stanley)
Date:
1873
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Credit: Notes on the treatment of chronic skin diseases : with a report of 1,000 cases treated at the Skin Hospital, Hyde Road, Manchester / by H. Stanley Gale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Urticaria.—I have only had the opportunity of trying this remedy in one case, and the effect was most unsatisfactory; but, of some hundreds of cases of cutaneous disease, this is the only one in which any bad effect was produced, and that was but temporary. Mary D., sempstress (at. 19), had suffered from Urticaria for four years. It came out on the least excitement, or wherever she touched her skin with her finger nail. There was no cause that could be made out. No sooner was the current (from four cells) applied than her face went a fine lobster red, and long wheals came out all over her body; this was accompanied by the most frightful itching. This condition continued nearly all day, and was but slightly reduced by sedative lotions. She would not permit the battery to be used again, and ultimately recovered under the use of the sulphur fume bath continued every day for three months or thereabouts. Mr. T. had suffered from three apparently melan- otic tumours, the size of a small bean, for three years. Five years ago he had one similar, which was excised at the Infirmary. Two years after, these appeared near the site of the old one, i.e., over the tendon of the extensor of the great toe. A needle was inserted into each tumour in con- nection with the negative pole, and the circuit completed by placing the sponge connected with the positive pole on the thigh. In two months these tumours had disappeared. Whether they will