[A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin / by T. Hunt].

  • Hunt, Thomas.
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: [A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin / by T. Hunt]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hausted from broken rest, she is in excellent health, show-i. ing no sign of internal disorder, except the eruption itself. Pulse feeble, tongue clean, secretions natural. Five minims of Fowler's solution of arsenic were directed to be taken three times a-day, with or after the meals, and a quinine draught twice a-day between the meals. Aug. 15th.—The conjunctivae of both eyes are inflamed; the eruption is fading, and has become much less trouble- some at night. The patient expresses herself as feeling stronger and in better spirits. Reduce the dose to four minims, and take the quinine once a-day. Oct. 4th.—The patient has taken the arsenic for twelve successive weeks, the quinine occasionally, and an aperient when required. The conjunctiva} are still inflamed, and the dose of the arsenic has latterly been reduced to three minims. The eruption now gives her very little trouble ; it has entirely vanished several times, but re-appears occa- sionally in a trifling degree. I now lost sight of the patient for a time, but I afterwards learnt that she perfectly reco- vered. Lichen frequently attacks the nose and face in deli- cate females, and then seldom yields without several months of persevering treatment. The exposure of the face to the open air, and the consequent variations of temperature, appear to aggravate the irritation of the skin. Case 2.—Chronic Lichen in the face, yielding to arsenical treatment continued for eleven months. Miss R., aged twenty-nine, a lady of delicate skin and fair complexion, tall and spare figure, weak and dyspeptic, had been much annoyed for several months by an eruption Df red pimples on the face, forehead, nose, and lips. A few also appeared on the neck. Dec. 8th, 1851.—The eruption is excessively irritable,