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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    medicine oftlie different forms of skin disease is similar, and consists in those means which would secure a pure atmosphere and just habit of body, by the better construction and selection of sites of dwellings; by perfect drainage, and the due removal of filth, so as to obviate either dampness or miasmatic pollution of the air; by the avoidance of overcrowding in apart- ments, and the securing of proper methods of ventilation; by a rigid attention to per- sonal cleanliness; by the use of properly cooked food; by due exercise; and by shun- ning all intemperance, whether in food or in drink. III. The great practical lesson which we learn from the history of skin diseases is not the less important because it may be said to apply almost equally to disease in general. It is a lesson which cannot be too often repeated, and which, as experience fully teaches, is most readily learned when it takes its legitimate place in the therapeutics of the different classes of disease. The value of the lesson will be more clearly appreciated as we proceed to glance at the chief questions connected with the causation of skin diseases.