The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates.

Date:
1906
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Credit: The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates. 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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    Kuijyyroform is a condensation product of formakkdiyde and birch tar. It occurs in the form of a grayish-l)rown, Hunr-like powder with a very faint odor that is not that of tar. It is soluble in acetone, solutions of caustic alka- lies, and chloroform. It can be nsed in ointments. It is an antipriuntic. It has been found useful in all stages of eczema, seborrhoeal eczema, psoriasis, prurigo, pityriasis rosea, and elm)mophytosis. Dosage : 1 to 5 per cent, in acetone or chloroform, and 5 to 25 per cent, in ointments. Europhen. An amorphous powder of yellow color and aromatic odor, containing 28 parts of iodine in 100. It is insoluble in water and glycerin ; readily soluble in ether, chloroform, collodion, and tranmaticin. It is useful in venereal ulcers aud mucous patches in pure powaler or 2 to 5 per cent, ointment: also in tertiary syphilis as hy])o- dermic injections in the vicinity of the lesion and in solu- tion in oil. Fi/iaof/ea is a solution of nitrate of cellulose in acetone with enough oil to make it elastic. It is used as an ex- cipient for salicylic acid, resorcin, iodoform, jiyrogallol, bichloride of mercury, chrysarobin, tar, ichthyol, and car- bolic acid. It holds in suspension sulphur and zinc. Fuchslne, and other aniline dyes, in 1 per cent, solution in water, are recommended as useful in ringworm, inopera- tive cancerous ulcers, erysipelas, and other local infectious diseases. (hdlacetophenone, made by the action of acetic acid upon pyrogallol, was brought out in 1891 as remarkably effi- cient in the treatment of psoriasis. It may be used in 5 to 10 per cent, strength in ointment or collodion, does not stain the clothing, and thus far has proved neither poison- ous nor very efficacious. Hydroxylamine is poisonous when absorbed. It was eommended for psoriasis, but can not be nsed over large surfaces. It has been commended in lupus vulgaris and ringworm of the sealp and beard, a grain and a half of the hydrochloride being dissolved in an ounce and a half each of alcohol and glycerin. It has not gained popular favor. Ichthalbin is a combination of ichthyol and albumen. 4
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