An Introduction to Dermatology (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... dermic injections of morphia are required, but usually antipyrine or some similar preparation suffices to make it at least bearable. For the treatment of the persistent neuralgias which are especially liable to occur in elderly people, a prolonged course of tonics is often requisite. Arsenic, phosphorus, iron, bromide of potassium, etc., all have their advocates, and in very obstinate cases the use of electricity is sometimes followed by relief. When ulceration has occurred some simple antiseptic ointment should be applied. In supra-orbital herpes occurring in men, perhaps no special precautions need be adopted, but when the disease occurs in young ladies, efforts should be made to prevent the development of the very considerable scars which usually follow that form of the disease. This is best done by removing the scab, as the amount of pressure which it exercises determines the depth of the resultant scar. The part should then be kept soft by the free application of ointment, so as to give the granulations every chance to replace the loss of substance. INFECTIVE INFLAMMATIONS. Strictly speaking, the infectious fevers belong to this class, but since they are not in this country regarded as diseases of the skin, and since, indeed, the skin lesion is in most of them a comparatively unimportant feature, we shall pass them over, and consider only the local infective inflammations of the skin proper. Among these there are one or two which have the power of generalizing, such as anthrax (splenic fever), glanders, and tuberculosis, but here we shall consider only their local effects. The infective inflammations of the skin may be divided into those of the epidermis and those of the corium, with one or other of these as the main seat of the...