On the value of a lotion of sulphide of zinc in the treatment of superficial lupus erythematosus / by Louis A. Duhring.

  • Duhring, Louis A., 1845-1913.
Date:
[1883]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the value of a lotion of sulphide of zinc in the treatment of superficial lupus erythematosus / by Louis A. Duhring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    4/8
    fore, which for these peculiar cases offers hope of relief, must prove welcome to both patient and physician. The striking good which has followed the use of this remedy in several cases that have recently been under my care induces me to present this note. I do not wish to claim for it any specific power over the disease, nor to say that it will cure. I merely wish to speak of it as a highly useful remedy, which in some cases has proved the only application that has at all benefited the disease. I was first led to prescribe it because of the service it had rendered in the treatment of seborrhcea of the face. The lotion consists of equal parts of sulphate of zinc and sulphuret of potash, in the strength of from five to fifteen grains each to the ounce of water, together with the addition of a variable quan- tity of alcohol. Ether may also often be added with benefit. I am in the habit of using the follow- ing formula : Take of sulphate of zinc and sulphuret of potash each thirty grains; rose-water, three fluid- ounces and a half; alcohol, three fluidrachms. If this strength agree with the skin, the two active ingredients may be increased to the amount of a drachm each to four ounces of the fluid. More alcohol may also be used, to the extent of one ounce to three of water. A few minims of glyc- erine to the ounce may sometimes be added with advantage. The lotion, which contains a light- grayish, pulverulent sediment, should be shaken before using, and applied lightly to the part for