A practical treatise on porrigo, or scalled head, and on impetigo, the humid or running tetter : with coloured engravings illustrative of the diseases / by Robert Willan ; edited by Ashby Smith.

Date:
1814
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Credit: A practical treatise on porrigo, or scalled head, and on impetigo, the humid or running tetter : with coloured engravings illustrative of the diseases / by Robert Willan ; edited by Ashby Smith. 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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    “ I have since followed Dr. Hume’s practice with much “ success—1 have found tins remedy a sure palliative in “ every instance; it generally operates mildly; it quickly “ removes the scabhy crust, and leaves the scalp in an “ ai)parently sound state. ‘‘ I speak thus guardedly, because I am aware that “ a disease which is apt to return, and at a distant j)eriotl “ too, may seem to be cured, when it is in fact only mi- “ tigated.—On this account much experience may be re- “ quisite to ascertain satisfactorily the efficacy of the Coccu- “ lus Indicus; to confirm its utility, it ma}’^ even be proper “ to continue it for a considerable time after the disease has “ disappeared. “ I had lately a patient, a boy about eleven years of age, “ in whom the hairy scalp was wholly encrusted with the “ scab of Tinea, which, during the space of two years, had “ resisted various apjdications.—In the month of October, 1806, he became my patient, and began to use the “ Cocculus Indicus, which was continued, with the inter- “ ru])tion of a very few days, for six months. It is now “ three months since this protracted course was finished; “ he continues well; his hair, which has been sufi’ered to “ grow, is thick and natural to the sight and touch. “ Dr. Hume advises the whole nut, the shell as well as “ the nucleus, to be reduced to a powder, and to he applied “ by itself, or under tlie form of an ointment. I found “ the powder was retained with dilliculty, and I formed it “ into an ointment with axunge, and oil of rape-seed. I now