Manual of Diseases of the Skin

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: opiate ointments. If the disease appears in an individual whose constitution is broken down by old age, or by some previous disease, tonics should be administered, and the strength recruited by nourishing diet. If gangrene supervene, recourse must be had to tonics and stimulating local applications. It is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: opiate ointments. If the disease appears in an individual whose constitution is broken down by old age, or by some previous disease, tonics should be administered, and the strength recruited by nourishing diet. If gangrene supervene, recourse must be had to tonics and stimulating local applications. It is sometimes difficult to remove the pain, which remains after the eruption has disappeared. Frictions, anodyne applications, and blisters, are frequently required to allay this irritation. M.M. Serres and Velpeau have lately recommended the ectrotic method, as very efficacious in H. zona. This is certainly one of those cases in which it has the best chance of succeeding, for it is not so much to subdue inflammation, as to allay the sensibility of the diseased parts, that it is required. However, it is generally of little avail in a disease, the treatment of which is usually so slight and simple as is required in herpes zoster. Herpes Circinatus. Herpes circinatus is a very frequent variety, and appears in the form of rings. It is characterized by the appearance of extremely small globular vesicles arranged in the form of circles, the-centre of which is free, and the border red. This circular border is often pretty broad, compared with the centre, especially when the rings are small, and the redness extends beyond the vesicles the same distance on either side. Symptoms.?The eruption is preceded by a redness of various degrees of intensity on the parts where the vesicles are about to form. The red color is usually confined to a surface not exceeding the circumference of a shilling; it sometimes, however, occupies a space about two inches in diameter. The redness is paler in the centre of the small rings. In the centre of the larger ones, the skin preserves its natural color....