A clean skin : how to get it and how to keep it : skin diseases of constitutional origin : their etiology, pathology, and treatment / by John Wilkins Williams.

  • Williams, John Wilkins
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1864
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Credit: A clean skin : how to get it and how to keep it : skin diseases of constitutional origin : their etiology, pathology, and treatment / by John Wilkins Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SYPHILITIC ERUPTIONS vagf. Three distinct kinds oi‘primary venereal disease, viz. ; A. Gonorrhoea— Its History— Symptoms — Cause—Stages — Treatment—Sequelae troublesome, especially Gleet—Causes and varieties of Gleet, and its treatment in the male and in the female ..... 62-58 B. Non-infecting or Soft Chancre Its characters—Treatment by Caustics and by milder means Points of difference between it and ..... 58-61 C. Infecting, Hard, or Hunterian Chancre. Characters and treatment of the latter 62-64 Secondary Venereal affections. (a) Syphilitic Vegetations— Condylomata; their physical characters, favourite localities and modes of origin Excrescences; their nature and treatment .... 64-65 (b) Syphilitic skin-diseases— Their Colour—Form— Painlessness—Multiformity—Products—Seat and concomitant phenomena—M. Hardy’s Classification , . 66-68 I. Pigmentary. II. Exanthematous : Syphilitic Roseola — its characters, progress, and concomitant phenomena. III. Vesicular—its varieties, viz. Eczematous, Varioliform, Herpetiform. IV. Pustular—its varieties, \-iz. Acneiform, Ecthymatous, Pustulo-Crus- V. Papular. [taceous. VI. Bullous—Pemphigus Neonatorum VII. Squasious—its varieties, viz. Lepra, Psoriasis, and Callosity. VIII. Tubercular—its varieties, viz. Aggregated, Disseminated, Perforating, Serpiginous 68-79 Treatment of Sj'philitic skin-diseases— Indiscriminate administration of Mercury a practice well-nigh obsolete, and open to grave objections—Non-Mercurial treatment the safest, but in certain cases insufficient—Therapeutic indications to be derived from the nature of the First, and of the Second eruption—How long Mercury should be given—Modes of obtaining its influence upon the system—(1) by the mouth; (2) by inunction; (3) by fumigation — Superiority of the last method—Treatment of Tertiary symptoms— Diday’s views of Tertiary Syphilis—General Hygiene: Food, Air, Sleep, Exercise, Continence, Sea-bathing &c. .... 79-88 Contagiousness of Secondary Syphilitic Lesions— Doctrine of the Contagion of Secondary Syphilis now well established —Evidence by which it is supported—Difference between results of infection from secondary and from primary lesions, in respect of their incubation, physical characters, and \'irulenee . . . 88-90