A practical treatise upon eczema : including its lichenous and impetiginous forms / by M'Call Anderson.

  • Thomas McCall Anderson
Date:
1874
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    Chap.j£ii. About two months after this (March 21) I saw this gentleman by accident, when he informed me that since the epilation the disease had never reappeared, and I could discover no trace of the previous eruption. He wore a magnificent mous- tache—epilation, as most are aware, having the effect of making the hair grow more luxuriantly than ever, owing to the stimulus which that operation gives to the circulation of the part. Those who are alive to the benefits of a luxu- rious pair of whiskers, and who have not yet succeeded in the attainment of their wishes, may perhaps be inclined to draw a practical lesson from the results of epilation in the case of the gentleman just alluded to. It may be as well to remark that epilation is only to be employed in exceptional cases which have resisted other methods of treatment, and that there is not nearly the same certainty of its doing good as in the case of ringworm of the beard. In strumous cases the best results are to be expected from the use of cod liver oil in ful] doses (two or three ounces per day), combined with the continuous application of the oil to the affected surface. Eczema labiorum. Eczema of the Lips (Eczema labiorum) is by no . means of rare occurrence, and may coincide with a similar eruption on other parts, though they