Atlas of diseases of the skin : including an epitome of pathology and treatment / by Franz Mraček ; authorized translation from the German ; edited by Henry W. Stelwagon.

  • Mraček, Franz, 1848-1908.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Atlas of diseases of the skin : including an epitome of pathology and treatment / by Franz Mraček ; authorized translation from the German ; edited by Henry W. Stelwagon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    satisfactorily settled ; the treatment of the greater number of diseases is still based upon the symptoms. As these are subject to changes during the course of a malady, the therapeutic indications also change; it is accordingly of great importance to the physician to recognize each one of these several phases or stages, and he will then be en- abled to use intelligently the numerous remedies which dermatologic therapeutics places at his disposal. Internal Treatment.—The older practitioners rec- ommended and employed various internal remedies in skin-diseases. Nearly all of these have been forgotten at the present day; the ideas, however, of treating skin- affections by placing stress upon dietary rules and internal medication are again coming more and more to the front. In some skin-diseases dietary regulations are not only strongly to be advised, but are even indispensable. One need, for instance, only recall urticaria, often due to in- gestion of certain kinds of food, and which may appear at other times when intestinal digestion is imperfect or faulty; and the erythemata, which occur under similar etiologic conditions; and also the eruptions of eczema in diabetic, nephritic, and gouty individuals. It is therefore surely an error to practise dermatology with the aid of the ointment-pot alone; just as it would be, on the other hand, to endeavor to combat marked changes in the cutaneous integument by simply forbidding certain articles of food. Of the internal remedies we desire to mention the fol- lowing: Arsenic, mercury, iodin, carbolic acid, tar-prepa- rations, pilocarpin, atropin, quinin, sodium salicylate, thyroid preparations, calcium chlorid, menthol, etc. Some cases are benefited by a course of treatment with the natural mineral waters (Carlsbad, Franzensbad, Roncegno, Hall, Lipik* [and in our own country Richfield Springs, Hot Springs of Virginia, Healing Springs, Bedford Springs, and many others well known.—Ed.]). External Treatment of Skin-diseases.—We em- ploy the following means: