Diseases of women.

  • Tait, Lawson, 1845-1899.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to large surface at one time, or it must be used by gradually increasing the strength of the solution. It seems to have a remarkable power as a local anaesthetic, and I have repeat- edly seen one application of it completely relieve the patient for some weeks. If I think it desirable to apply it widely, or in a concentrated form, I always place the patient under an anaesthetic. In one case in my practice, where the disease was probably the expression of some dyscracy, such as chronic gout, it was completely cured by the insertion of a seton just above the groin; but when the seton was removed the disease returned. The patient greatly preferred the inconvenience of the seton to the misery of the eczema. The disease known as prurigo senilis is one which seems to exist only on paper, as those cases answering its descrip- tion which have fallen under my notice have always been explicable upon some better pathological basis than is sup- posed by this title. Herpes.—The only form of herpetic eruption which I have seen on the genitals is the ordinary shingles or herpes zoster. More than once I have seen this disease course over the crest of the ilium, and end in a sort of inflorescence on the labium of the same side. Women seem to be more subject to herpes zoster than men are, and they are greatly troubled with the acute pain over the course of the nerve, which sometimes continues for weeks after the eruption has faded. The hypodermic injection of morphia relieves this pain at once, and in some instances permanently. The local appli- cation of liniments containing opium are also useful. This disease is really an exanthem, and is accompanied by febrile symptoms, which are occasionally quite severe. Its local appearances are due to some condition of the nerve, leading to papillary inflammation of the skin, and the nerves affected are probably the paretic nerves of the blood- vessels. Acne is a very common and an exceedingly troublesome