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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    Variola could scarcely g;ive rise to much doubt, as it has well-marked coiistitutioiial symptoms, aud its lesions undergo a definite aud characteristic development. Treatment. In the treatment of acne we can obtain a cure most surely by attention to the general condition of the patient; most rapidly by a combination of internal and local treatment. We, therefore, begin the treatment of a case by a careful inquiry into the general condition of the patient, and endeavor to regulate any, even the slightest, derangement of the internal organs. By so doing we may find no one of those conditions enumerated under the etiology of the affection, and the patient may consider himself as in the best condition. Furtlier observation will ])robably reveal some deviation, tliough slight, from perfect health. The relief of constitutional disorders is conducted according to the principles of general medicine, and cannot be given here. Many of the cases require cod-liver oil and iron as general measures quite apart from any evident disease. This is seen in the sluggish cases occurring in strumous subjects with pasty skins. In plethoric subjects with a good deal of inflammation attending the acne laxative agents, such as a tenth of a grain of calomel in tablet tritu- rates, given three or four times a day, will aid in a cure, quite aside from any constipation. Diet and hygiene are agents to be employed rather than drugs. It is impossible for us to lay down fixed principles of diet, and it is better to study each case by itself. The well-to-do are all ])rone to eat too much, aud it is remark- able how rapidly their acne will improve by reducing their diet to the simplest elements, giving them meat but once a day and increasing the amount of green vegetables. In many of them a milk diet for a few days, provided milk agrees with them, will accomplish a marked benefit. It must be remembered that milk is a food, and that when other foods are partaken of freely the taking of milk at the same time may overload the stomach. The cutting of milk from the dietary will be of great benefit in some cases of acne. It is a good rule to cut off from the dietary all pastry, cakes, candy, sweets, hot breads, pan-
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