On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno, -1908.
Date:
1876
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Credit: On the treatment of chronic eczema by glycerole of subacetate of lead / by Balmanno Squire. 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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    while it preserves the surface moist, it readily incor- porates itself, and, more than that, undergoes true admixture or diffusion (osmosis) with the viscid aqueous solution of lymph and albumen which is exuded slowly but continuously from the surface of the diseased skin. Thus it conveys the remedy held in solution by it more freely to the actual sur- face of the skin itself. At the same time it fulfils an indication which is less perfectly attainable by the use of ointment; it adheres more closely to the comparatively moist surface of eczematous skin than ointment does, and so is less readily rubbed off by accidental friction. In this way it more efficiently preserves a uniform suppleness of the skin affected by eczema—a matter of importance in more than one respect, for not only is the patient relieved from the hide-bound feeling which is one of the chief distresses of chronic eczema, but the chapping and cracking of the skin, caused by the partial splitting on every movement of the body of the inelastic var- nish formed on its surface by the partially dried-up exudation, is avoided ; and this latter phenomenon is one of the main aggravators and perpetuators of the eruption. That glycerine possesses ample capacity for pene-