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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    racteristic vesicles of eczema, and the scabs are always thin and lamellated, as compared to those of impetigo. It is possible, also, to confound impetigo, when it is going off, and when the skin is red, tender, shining, perhaps chapped, and without its characteristic crusts, ■with psoriasis, but in psoriasis we may always find the characteristic dry squamse, consisting of exfoliations of morbid cuticle, which are entirely different from the scabs of impetigo. Between impetigo and the other pustular erup- tions the distinctions are always sufficiently marked. Impetigo is not contagions. A wholesome and nutritions diet is generally the prime requisite in the treatment of impeti- gonous affections, and the medicines most com- monly wanted are of a tonic character, espe- cially steel in one or other of its forms, and cod-liver oil. The syrup of the iodide of iron is of great value where an alterative is required in addition to a tonic; and occasionally a mild mercurial may be required during the inflamma- tory or febrile stage. As a local application, the benzoated oxide of zinc ointment appears to be as good as any other; and, as a rule, ointments are far preferable to any watery applications.