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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    a fine point of solid nitrate of silver through the opening. The mercurial ectrotic treatment was sug- gested by Professor Serres, and first brought prominently into notice by Sir Joseph Olillc, of Paris. A most convenient mode of carry- ing it out is in the form of ointment recom- mended by Professor Hughes Bennett, of Edin- burgh—one ounce of strong mercurial oint- ment, mixed with one drachm of powdered starch. Applied at an early period, the eruption is prevented from passing into the pustular stage, and the troublesome itching is almost entirely done away with; applied at a later period, after the pustules are formed, the effect upon the eruption is not very marked, hut even then it diminishes not a little the swelling of the skin, and the annoying itching, so far as we have had an opportunity of judging; indeed, mercurial ointment affords a very effectual means of pre- venting pitting upon the face—a more effectual means than nitrate of silver; and we do not know of any disadvantages to be set against these advantages; for the danger of salivation, which was once urged as a disadvantage, is now allowed to he a matter of theory, and not of practice.