A practical compendium of the diseases of the skin, including a particular consideration of the more frequent and intractable forms of these affections; with cases / By Jonathan Green.

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.
Date:
1838
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Credit: A practical compendium of the diseases of the skin, including a particular consideration of the more frequent and intractable forms of these affections; with cases / By Jonathan Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ALKALINE BATH. R. Potassae sub-carbon. Siv—Sviii. Aquae tepid. Cong. xxx. M. Very useful in promoting desquamation from the skin, and in allaying pruritus in several forms of prurigo especially. ARTIFICIAL HARROWGATE BATH. R. Sodae muriat. feij. Magnes. sulph. dr. iij. Potassae sulphuret. Ifci. Aquae. Cong. xxx. FUME BATHS, OR FUMIGATIONS. SULPHUR. Sulphur, subiimat. 3i—-Si—3iij. CHLORINE. R. Oxid. nigr. manganes. 3 ss. Acid, muriat. Si. It is in some cases advisable to substitute this bath occasionally for that of the sulphur fumes, when the disease of the skin, for which these are prescribed, proves very rebellious. It soon occa¬ sions the mouth to become sore, like the nitro-moriatic acid bath. MERCURIAL. Hydrarg. oxid. cinerei, 3 i— 3 ij— 3 iij. The gray oxide is preferable to the red sulphuret of mercury or cinnabar, as it does not occasion coughing when inhaled, which cinnabar always does. It is, on the same account, greatly superior to cinnabar for fumigating ulcers in the throat. AROMATIC, R. Gum. benzoin. 3iv—oz. i. Aromatic effluvia may also be raised in the heated air bath from any other of the fragrant gum resins, essential oils, (fee. LINIMENTS AND LOTIONS. R, Potassae sulphuret. 3 iij. Sapon. mollis, Si. Aq. calcis, oz. viij. Spirit, vin. rect. 3 ij. M.