A manual of the diseases of the skin / by Balmanno Squire.

  • Squire, Balmanno (Alexander John Balmanno), -1908.
Date:
1868
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Credit: A manual of the diseases of the skin / by Balmanno Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    icr The treatment of E. leve consists in removing the cause (oedema) by diuretics, sudorifics, or aperients, by position or by acupuncture; and in using stimulating applications, such as camphorated spirit or tincture of iodine, to the erythematous patches. E. paratrimma, or the Bedsore, happens in the course of debilitating diseases that confine the patient long to bed, such as typhus or typhoid fever, or paralysis of the lower half of the body. The common position of the bedsore is over the sacrum, but it is occasionally situated over either of the trochanters, or of the iliac crests. It appears at first as a diffused dusky redness of a limited portion of the skin, attended with a sensation of pricking; sometimes serous blebs are developed on the reddened surface; soon, the affected skin becomes blackened, and a more or less extensive slough forms, which sometimes extends very deeply. The treatment consists in the removal of pressure from the affected skin; in preventing the flow of irri- tating secretions over it; in a scrupulous attention to cleanliness, and in the local use of stimulating applica- tions. If a slough has formed, its separation should be fa- voured by the application of yeast poultices. After the separation of the slough, the ulcer should be dressed with some moderately stimulating ointment. E. pernio (or the Chillblain) is a complaint almost peculiar to children and young persons; it affects es- pecially those who are of lymphatic temperament.