A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin, with suggestions for their prevention : for the use of the student and general practitioner : illustrated by cases / by Thomas Hunt.

  • Hunt, Thomas, 1798-1879.
Date:
1871
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Credit: A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin, with suggestions for their prevention : for the use of the student and general practitioner : illustrated by cases / by Thomas Hunt. 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.

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    bile and other symptoms of inaction of the liver should be corrected by active doses of calomel with jalap or colocynth. Dyspepsia, cardialgia, pain at the scrobiculus cordis, or feeble action of the heart, may all be relieved and corrected by combining- with each dose of Fowler’s solution twenty or thirty drops of the sp. ammon. arom. 8. The pulse, and the temperature of the skin, if abnormal, must be reduced to a healthy standard by antiphlogistic means; and the tone of the system must be raised if it be too low. 4. These preliminaries having been duly observed, the disease will either get well spontaneously, or not. If not, it is either syphilitic or otherwise; if syphilitic, it must be treated by mercury, or iodine ; if other- wise, arsenic is the best alterative remedy. 5. Fowler’s solution of arsenic may be given in doses of five minims three times a day, or the liquor arsenici chloridi in doses of ten or fifteen minims ; the solution may be mixed with a little water, or with the beverage drank with or after meals. This dose should be taken with exact regularity, and the patient should be examined at first once a week. When the con- junctiva becomes inflamed, the dose should be slightly reduced, but the medicine must not be entirely aban- doned icntil weeks or months after all disposition to morbid action appears to have subsided. 6. If the cutaneous disease should assume an in- flammatory type during the arsenical course, it will seldom be necessary to discontinue the arsenic ; but it will be requisite to subdue the inflammation by a smart purgative, or by the application of a few leeches to the inflamed portions of skin, and to reduce the diet.