Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess.
- Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![arsenious acid gr. J, peroxide of mercury gr. J, iodine, as bydriodic acid, about gr. §. Dose to begin -witb, for an adult, nixx., winch may be increased to 5s, tbree times a day. The dose of Fowler’s solution winch will be found most efficacious is lîliv. to begin with for an adult, wliich may be increased to double tbat quantity twice a day. Altbougb tbe scaly éruptions are thus generally recommended to be treated witb arsenic, tbe practitioner will find tbat tbe bénéficiai elfects of this beroic remedy extend also to obstinate forms of tbe pustular and papular diseases. Tbe bigbly stimulating properties of tbe minerai render it inadmissible in persons of tbe nervo- sanguineous tempérament, or those of an irritable babit of body. Tbe common symptoms skowing tbat tbe remedy disagrees with tbe patient are, frontal beadacbe, tbirst, nausea, irritation or oppres- sion about tbe epigastrium, and pricking sensations about tbe eye- lids. On tbe appearanee of one or more of tbe symptoms tbe re- medy sbould be diseontinued, or tbe dose lessened, for several days. Baths, simple and medicated, corne next in point of utility, and cannot be too freely, or too frequently used. Tbe minerai acids and diapboretics are also powerful auxiliaries in tbe treatment of dis- eases of tbe skin. I bave found tbe juniper tar ointment, as recommended by M. Velten, of Aix-la-Cbapelle, an exceedingly useful local application in several éruptions of an irritable cbaracter, as for instance, some forms of eczema. Tbe following is tbe formula used by M. Yelten. R Olei pyrolig. juniperi .... 5 iss. Adipis ovilli 588- Œxungiæ porci ...... S*88- M. et ft. unguentum. To be rubbed in at nigbt, and washed off in tbe moming. He also recommends a juniper tar soap, in cutaneous affections of a torpid cbaracter, as psoriasis palmaris and inveterata.—B.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28049573_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
