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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    ■22 1. Water for ablutions and for partial and full baths; the cold water as an astringent and warm water dilating the vessels. The continuous water-bath (Hebra's water- bed) may be employed in pemphigus foliaceus, decubitus, extensive burns, universal psoriasis, lichen ruber, and pityriasis rubra Hebra. Medicated baths are baths con- taining alkalies, potassium sulphid, brine, tar, corrosive sublimate, etc. 2. Besides waters, the fats serve materially for the purpose of softening morbid accumulations on the skin. Mineral, vegetable, and animal fats, in solid and fluid form, are employed ; they are used alone or as vehicles for medicaments. We mention those most frequently used : Petrolatum, vasogene (oxygenated hydrocarbons), vasole (Hell), cacao-butter, ol. olivse, ol. amygdalarum dulc, ol. lini, ol. rapsB (rape-seed oil), ol. ricini, lard, spermaceti, oesypus (the natural fat of wool), adeps lanse (wool-fat), lanolin [this is not a fat, but consists princi- pally of ethereal fatty acids of Cholesterin and isocholes- terin, which are also found in all tissues containing kera- tin and in the human skin and human hairs, and of free fatty acids (up to 30 per cent.)], cod-liver oil, and oleum physeteris. Further: Mollin (an over-fatty soap made of pure kidney-fat and the finest Cochin cocoanut-oil, saponified by mixing potash- and soda-lye and addition of glycerin), myronin (produced from vegetable wax and ol. phy- seteris), resorbin (made of almond-oil, wax, and addition of gelatin, soap, and adeps lanse), glycerinum saponatum (H. v. Hebra), epidermin (Kohn), unguentum lanolini Paschkis (lanolin, anhydr., G5 (six gr. xxxv); paraffin, liquid., 30 (3viiss); ceresini (mineral wax), 5 (gr. lxxv); aq. destill., 30 (3viiss)), vaselinum lanolinatum (Hell), and glycerin. Ointment-mulls (Salbenmulle) (Beiersdorf) are band- ages spread with special salve-mass variously medicated, which do not adhere to the skin, but must be kept in position by suitable bandages. The fatty mass of the