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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Licence: In copyright

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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    eruption is better presumptive evidence of syphilis than is itching positive evidence against it. Don’t make the diagnosis of lichen planus from the presence of flat angular papules with depressed centers alone, because identical lesions will at times be met with in eczema, syphilis, and psoriasis. Don’t depend upon getting the bleeding-points springing out of the delicate pellicle after carefully scraping off the scales, for your diagnosis of psoriasis, because you can produce the same thing in other diseases. In fact. Don’t depend upon any one symptom, but make your diagnosis from the general make-up of the disease as a whole. Don’t forget that many diseases of the skin are depend- ent upon disturbances in the general health of the patient. Therefore, Don’t fail to inquire into the performance of the func- tions of the various organs of the patient, and to put him into as good a physical condition as possible. Don’t tell your patient that it is dangerous to cure his skin disease rapidly, because it is not. If you Don’t know how to treat the case, ask advice of someone who does. Don’t encourage the popular notion that there is danger of an eruption striking in, because it never does. Don’t give arsenic for every skin disease, and, es- pecially. Don’t give it in acute eruptions. Its sphere is in the chronic scaly eruptions, such as chronic psoriasis. Don’t forget that most cases of pruritus are due to in- ternal causes; and that in them external treatment is wasted; and Don’t forget the bedbug and the pediculus as possible causes of the trouble. Don’t forget that the greatest secret in the treatment of eczema, and many other skin diseases, is not what par- ticular drug or formula is “ good for ” the disease, but a knowledge of the great ]>rinciple that acute diseases need soothing -remedies and subacute and chronic diseases need stimulation.
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