Eczema, its nature and treatment : and, incidentally, the influence of constitutional conditions on skin diseases : being the Lettsomian lectures for the session 1869-70, delivered before the Medical Society of London / by Tilbury Fox.

  • Fox, William Tilbury, 1836-1879.
Date:
1870
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Eczema, its nature and treatment : and, incidentally, the influence of constitutional conditions on skin diseases : being the Lettsomian lectures for the session 1869-70, delivered before the Medical Society of London / by Tilbury Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    8/68 (page 4)
    made, however, between the origination of a skin disease in a blood change, and its modification by morbid states of the blood—a fact of the commonest occurrence. 3. There is reason to believe that a soothing plan of treatment is much more commonly needed than a stimu- lant one (though the reverse is adopted as a rule); since many disorders of the skin are consequent upon nerve- irritation. Finally, I would say that it is more than ever apparent that no man can hope to be a successful dermatologist who does not aim to be also the thorough physician ; and I trust this will be evident from what I have said in the following pages in reference to the pathology and thera- peutics of eczema.