Notes on some of the newer remedies used in diseases of the skin : address of the Chairman delivered in the Section on Dermatology and Syphilography, at the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Atlanta, Ga., May 5-8, 1896 / by L. Duncan Bulkley.

  • Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, 1845-1928.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Notes on some of the newer remedies used in diseases of the skin : address of the Chairman delivered in the Section on Dermatology and Syphilography, at the Forty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Atlanta, Ga., May 5-8, 1896 / by L. Duncan Bulkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    results are still too uncertain to be recorded. The thyroid extract is also being tried and reported on in psoriasis and some other skin affections. Although I can not say much in its favor from personal experi- ence, I am inclined to think favorably of it in psoriasis. Antipyrin, while not a very new remedy for general use, has recently been advocated in urticaria and will often prove very effective, provided there is not some alimentary disorder continuing the trouble. When cases have resisted ordinary remedies, a moderate dose of antipyrin given three or four times daily, between meals, will often serve to stop the tendency to the eruption. Phenacetin and even antifebrin, will some- times prove of great service as antipruritics, especially when given at night. Many new preparations of mercury have been intro- duced for the treatment of syphilis in the last few years, no less than twenty-four new combinations appearing in a recent publication; but, as far as can be seen, the advantage from them relates only to their tolerance by the digestive system, and there is no one to which I can refer with special recommendation. In all it is only the mercury which is the active agent, and I have yet to find any yield better results in early syphilis than the one grain tablets of mercury and chalk given every two hours, as recommended by Jonathan Hutchinson. In the later stages of syphi- lis, the combinations with iodin still hold their old and valued position. The many suggestions in regard to the hypodermic use of mercury, in various forms, occasionally prove valuable in rare cases where there is great stomach intolerance of the drug, or where for some special reason very prompt action is desired; or where the patient, for social or other reasons, prefers an occasional injection to the taking of repeated doses internally. But I have never found it necessary or desirable to resort to them largely, and I question if many of those engaged in treating syphilis now use this method much more frequently than I do. Some new preparations of iodin have been intro-