The family physician, or, Every man his own doctor : in three parts : together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of Asiatic cholera, a glossary, explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index and appendix / by Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
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1834
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Credit: The family physician, or, Every man his own doctor : in three parts : together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of Asiatic cholera, a glossary, explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index and appendix / by Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III. CHRONIC DISEASES OF THE SKIN, CHRONIC CUTANEOUS DISEASES. BLOTCHED, OR PIMPLED FACE. [ACNE.] This is common to young people of both sexes ; it is char- acterised by pimples on the forehead and chin, and frequently upon the breast and shoulders. It first appears like little worms in the skin, but it is nothing more than the sebaceous [fat like] matter obstructed in its passage ihrough the skin? in consequence of which it accumulates, hardens, distends the pore which contains it, and produces inflammation and abscess. TREATMENT. Frequent bathing, rubbing the parts with warm soap sxids frequently, a»d forcing out the worms, as they are commonlv called, will in most cases suffice. But sometimes it is con- nected with disorder of the stomach, and an emetic or cathar- tic should therefore be given in the first place, calomel should be jo:ned with whatever cathartic is given. And the sores should be washed with lead water, or a solution of sugar of lead, or white vitriol, or corrosive sublimate, and anointed with mercurial ointment, or unguentum or yellow ointment, (unguentum, nitritis hvdrarggri,) several times a day. In addition to this, if the tubercles terminate in suppuration spreading some distance round, with considerable matter, and a dark blue color of the skin, which is painful to touch; poultices, fomentations, puncturing the tumor, and pressing- out the matter, following this with the above lotions and ointments, with occasional doses of gentle physic, and the taking of twenty drops elixir vitriol thrice a day, constitutes the principal treatment. SCALD HEAD; TINEA CAPITIS. This is known by the falling off of the hair, owing to too great excitement of the vessels of the scalp, which produces,