A complete handbook of treatment : arranged as an alphabetical index of diseases to facilitate reference, and containing nearly one thousand formulae / by William Aitken.

William Aitken

Date:: 1882

Credit: A complete handbook of treatment : arranged as an alphabetical index of diseases to facilitate reference, and containing nearly one thousand formulae / by William Aitken. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$insufficient nourishment, often for days at a time able to take nourishment by rectal alimentation only; yet considering the well-merited reputation of tetanus as a fatal disease, surely it is a solid gain that even a few cases may, under certain circumstances, be saved by the resources of modern medi- cine (Brain, Part VII., Oct., 1879, p. 483). Tinea Decalvans.—Definition.—A fungous disease caus- ing the formation of rounded or oval patches of baldness, sometimes solitary, more generally multiple. It affects the hairy scalp principally; but the beard, the genital organs, and hairy portions of the skin may also suffer. Tj'eatment Q,on^\^\.'s>—{\}} In preventing the spread of the disease circumferentially. All the hairs within a quarter of an inch of the circumference of the patch ought to be care- fully extracted. The head should be washed daily with soft or black soap. All the downy hairs within the patch must be similarly removed till healthy hairs begin to grow; and some of the parasiticide lotions or ointments must be in- dustriously used. (2.) Stimulants, or even blisters, must be applied to the surface of the bald patch after the fungus has been destroyed. A mixture of equal parts of collodium and of ether cantharidalis (collodium vesicans) is the most useful stimulant. The following lotions may be found ad- vantageous alternately with the collodium stimulant namely:— ]^. Liquor Ammoniae, 3 iss; 01. Olivse, 3ii-; 01. Macidis, 3 ss.;Spiritus Rosmarini, 3 iv.; Aq. Rosse, | ii.; misce bene. To be used night and morning, applied over the bald patches. Mr. Startin recommends a lotion nearly similar, namely:— ^. Spt. Ammon. co., f3i.; Glycerine, fsss.; Tinct. Cantharidis, f 3 i. to f 3 ii.; Aq. Rosmar., § viii. Mr. Erasmus Wilson recommends the following:— I^. 01. Amygdal.; Liq. Ammoniae, aa 3 i-; Spt. Rosmarini; Aq. Mellis, aa J ii.; misce. To use as a lotion. Of course, none of these agents have any good result if there are no bulbs or roots of hair left whose growth can be stimulated by such application; but when hair falls off, or breaks away after debiHtating illness, or from dryness of the scalp, they are often useful. Tinea Favosa.—Defi7iition.—A fungous parasitic disease, composed of cup-shaped scabs, sometimes distinct and separate, at other times indistinct or confluent. The fungi (Achorion Schonleinii Puccinia favi) are capable of being$