Practical observations on the pathology and treatment of certain diseases of the skin generally pronounced intractable / By Thomas Hunt.

  • Hunt, Thomas, 1798-1879.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Practical observations on the pathology and treatment of certain diseases of the skin generally pronounced intractable / By Thomas Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    awarded the Fothergillian medal for the best essay on Lepra and Psoriasis. There is reason therefore to hope, that the members of the profession generally, are disposed to listen to any sugges- tions which may tend to the advancement of this much-neglected branch. The author avails himself of this lucid appearance in the medical horizon, to introduce to the notice of his brethren a few practical illustrations of a system of treatment which he has been accustomed to pursue with the most happy results for many years ; and with which, the more familiar he becomes, the more deeply he is convinced that it will be approved and ultimately adopted by the profession. | The cases related in illustration of the author’s views are chiefly taken from notes of his own private practice during the last twenty years. The examples are selected, not because they are peculiarly successful, but because as a series they show the effects of a similar principle of treatment in a// the various forms of eruption, as well as the various phases or types of disease to which this method is adapted. The mode of administering arsenic described in the following pages, is, in one or two particulars, so far as the author is aware, entirely new; and it certainly originated with himself. Upon the method of using this most potent mineral, will much depend the degree of success with which the cure of these diseases is attempted... Most of the cases detailed in this little work had been treated with arsenic, some of them “ heroically,” before they came under the author's care. But as the fortress which is impregnable to artillery, will yield at length to the silent operation of the elements of nature, so certain diseases which are even aggravated by large doses of the poison, will ultimately yield to the gradual influence of its con- tinued use, in small and diminishing qualities.