Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in removing the constitutional irritation attending the local disorder, but in improving the morbid condition of the dermoid texture. Of the several kinds of lotion ordinarily employed in ringvi^orm of the scalp, I give a decided preference to a solution of nitrate of silver, in the proportion of a drachm of the salt to 12 ounces of distilled water. Mercurial and sulpliur ointments may also be considered important remedies. In Porrigo clecalvans, I have never derived benefit from any mode of treatment (and I have given a fair trial to most of the means w^hich have at different times been proposed for the removal of this obstinate affection), except constant shaving and washing of the scalp in sea water. The same treatment must be adopted in the Porrigo favosa as in the other species of this affection. When the scalp is the seat of the disease, it is absolutely necessary to remove the hair with finely pointed scissors, and to wash the pustules with warm water several times daily. I have frequently seen cases of some months' standing removed in as many weeks by simple ablution and the use of the alteratives, as recommended in the other varieties of porrigo. If the patient be young, the hands should be secured to prevent picking and scratching about the edges of the scabs. In the several forms of Prufigo, the sulphur bath will also be found very serviceable, when it is deemed necessary to have recourse to it; but mild aperients, cooimg diet, and the warm hath, mostly succeed in removing the disease. The