Volume 1

A practical treatise on the management and diseases of children / By R.T. Evanson and H. Maunsell.

  • Evanson, Richard T. (Richard Tonson), 1806-1871.
Date:
1847
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    SCALD-HBEAD. © ~* ATk that state of baldness to which we have just adverted. Our prog: nosis should, nevertheless, refer to the tediousness and obstinacy; rather than to the incurability of the disease. Patience and clean: liness, with attention to the general health are, we believe, the grand remedial agents required, and by the employment of these, during six months, the late Dr. J. Crampton,* cured a total of twenty-eight eases which he treated, together, during that period. a The treatment of tinea, as it is laid down in the works of system+- atic writers is a mere jumble of empirical experiments : lotions, ointments, escharotics, and depilatories of all kinds, from the decoc- tion of flaxseed to the pitch cap, inclusive, have been freely recom- mended and unsparingly used, and each and all have most impartially failed. To enter’into any discussion with respect to the numberless proposals of remedies, or even to enumerate them, would lead us far beyond our limits, and that without conveying the least particle of useful information to our readers. ‘Those who are curious on the subject, we must, therefore, refer to the express works on cutaneous diseases, and we will now content ourselves with sketching the plan of treatment which appears to us most rational, and which we have found to be comparatively, though (we must confess) not absolutely, successful. The treatment, then, must be both constitutional and local; the former being directed to the re-establishment of the general health, by whatever may appear in each case to be the most suitable means. In children who have been leading sedentary lives, who have been poorly and carelessly fed, and whose digestive systems have consequently become disordered, aperients are strongly indicated, and those of a saline kind will be found to be particularly useful: In scrofulous children, much benefit will generally be derived from the use of the warm tonic purgatives, as the saline infusion of rhubarb, (No. 28) or the aloetic mixture, (No. 35). Dr. Crampton recommends purgatives every second morning ; but we must, of course, use our discretion as to the frequency of their repetition, always stopping short of exciting any excessive irritation in the intestinal canal. In almost every case, we shall find advantage from *We have to acknowledge the great advantages which we derived from a perusal of the paper of this able and lamented physician, published in the fourth vol. of the transactions of the King and Queen’s College of Physicians, In a few pages, Dr. Crampton has conveyed more information in an intelligible form, than is to be found in all the systematic works taken together.
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