[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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    grains, every other night ; liquor arsenici chloridi ten minims thrice a day. May 7.—Quite well : ordered a warm bath :—discharged cured. Case 8.—Lichen urticatus, in an anemic subject, cured with iron and arsenic. [The treatment of this form of Lichen must vary in almost every case. The principle to be adopted is to direct attention to the constitution and the state of the general health]. Elizabeth C, aged 36, single, applied to the Dispensary Sept. 3rd, 1858. Complains of a severe eruption of a papu- lar character on the legs and thighs, which has plagued her for eight months. It has been mistaken for and trea- ted as scabies, and much aggravated by sulphur ointment. There are patches of erythema and urticaria here and there. Health weak, appearance anemic. Bowels and cata- menia regular. The disease yielded in six weeks to a course of arsenic with sesquichloride of iron and Plummer's pill. Case 9.—Lichen agrius in the legs and arms, yielding slowly to arsenic and purgatives. John F., aged 38, had been a severe sufferer from Lichen agrius in the legs and arms for five years and a half. He applied to the Dispensary Aug. 18th, 1858. Is suffering from severe and tormenting pruritus in the legs and arms, j the dorsal sides of which are encrusted, swollen, and fis- sured. The skin is extremely sensitive, and he gets little { rest. Papules are distinctly visible on the margins of the diseased patches. His health is fair, but he feels exhausted for want of rest. No cause can be assigned for the disease. A dose of calomel and compound colocynth j pill, of each five grains every alternate night, and ten min- s ims of liq. arsenici chlorid. thrice a day. ^ Oct. 6th.—He has been gradually improving. Continue