Lectures on the treatment of the common diseases of the skin / by Robert M. Simon, M.D.

  • Simon, Robert M.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Lectures on the treatment of the common diseases of the skin / by Robert M. Simon, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a powder of equal parts of tartaric and boracic acids. I fit appears to be idiopathic, an ointment of equal parts of oleate of zinc ointment, and unguentum picis liquids will prove useful, and in some cases I have added, with advantage, four grains of cocaine to an ounce of the ointment. Pruritus vulvas should always excite the suspicion of Glycosuria ; it is by far more frequent in the Glycosuria of old adults, than in the declared Diabetes Mellitus of younger women. When due to this cause, or to Leucorrhcea, extreme cleanliness is, of course, to be advocated, and it will generally be relieved by the use of proper internal remedies, and the application of a lotion containing borax :— ^—Glycrini Boracis § ij Aquam ad § viij M ft. lotio One case, which had long resisted all means devised for relief, got well at once when the vulva was dusted with calomel. In this case, however, there was no diabetes or leucorrhcea or any suspicion of syphilis. The itching of eczema may generally be relieved by the free use of lotions, containing