Lectures on cosmetic treatment : a manual for practitioners / by Edmund Saalfeld ; translated by J.F. Halls Dally ; with an introduction and notes by P.S. Abraham.
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Lectures on cosmetic treatment : a manual for practitioners / by Edmund Saalfeld ; translated by J.F. Halls Dally ; with an introduction and notes by P.S. Abraham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![are the ones who cbietiy need our assistance— should wear veils of red, yellow, or brown tint; tbeir bats, moreover, sbould have a wide brim, tbe lining of tbe brim sbould also be of one of tbese colours, as well as the simsbade and blouse. The latter sbould not, as is now frequently the fashion, bave an openwork pattern. I have seen tbe print of the pattern of such a blouse clearly marked on chest and back. Furthermore, considerable use sbould be made of powder, wbich should be one tinted brown with ochre, or red with bolus rubra, and you add to the powder 5 to 10 per cent. quinine; instead of tbis you can also prescribe the following •— R Quininfe hydrochlor. XXXVR] l 2'5-5 0 Uj gr. xvij J Zinci oxydi Talci venet. J . aa §j 0v Aq. dest. Glycerini . . aa q. s. ad ,3i 3vj ad 50-0 M. S.—For external application. If, bowever, chloasma has developed, or the ephelides are very numerous, desquamating agents are to be employed for their removal. In slighter cases you can count on complete success, whilst in very deep pigmentation only little improvement is to be expected. In the case of remedies wbich act mechanically one should, a priori, determine that in the scaling process the cells which contain abnormal quantities of pigment should be removed. This view is, however, not to be regarded as final; for it is just the basal cells which contain most](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21923000_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
