Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glycerine will occupy an important place, and by the internal use of opium and aconite, one or both, if the local measures are not suf- ficient. In a ease under treatment by a friend, about twelve months ago, a large dose of quinine (five grains) immediately put a stop to pain which had tormented the patient for five days previously, and which had got worse rather than better under the use of a saline aperient containing some tincture of colchi- cum. In ordinary cases of herpes, the application of the benzoated oxide of zinc ointment will be sufficient as an external application, or, (where it is desirable to check the progress of the vesicles, and to bring about a more speedy cure), the ectrotic plan of treatment may be adopted; that is, the vesicles may be punctured, and a sharp point of nitrate of silver be intro- duced into the opening for a moment. Scabies. Syn. Itch. Fr. Gale. Germ. • The vesicles of scabies are minute, separate, slightly acuminated. As the common name 9