Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.

  • Robinson, Tom
Date:
1884
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Credit: Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Wliere your patients have a family liistory of scrofula or other signs denoting the malady, let them have, in addition to the above re- medies, cod-liver oil. Where there is a syphilitic tendency, mercury must he used and iodide of potassium forbidden; the latter remedy will induce acne, as will hro- mide. The local condition often rerpiires very care- ful manao-ement. Where a sebaceous follicle is o sujipurating, encourage the pus-forming ])ro- cess by hot applications, and as soon as you are sure it is present let it out; hut make a very small 0})enlng or you leave scars. In some acne spots the collection is in a closed follicle, a blind boil as people say, and your remedy here is to ])uncture. Where the Inflammatory growth is hea})ed u]) around a sebaceous follicle, the following .solution used by Sir Erasmus Wilson is most valuable: li villi Rect. 5v. CKtheris Sulpluiris 5iij. mix and add Gum Masticlius gr. xxv. dissolve these two, then add lodinii 3ij. This must be painted on the jiajmle and let
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