A treatise on the cutaneous diseases incidental to childhood: comprehending their origin, nature, treatment, and prevention / By Walter C. Dendy.

  • Dendy, Walter Cooper, 1794-1871.
Date:
1827
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Credit: A treatise on the cutaneous diseases incidental to childhood: comprehending their origin, nature, treatment, and prevention / By Walter C. Dendy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    alvine discharge. In several instances of this form of disease | have seen the umbilicus become a deep ecthymatous ulcer, in infants where many weeks have not elapsed since the separation of the funis. It is in such cases that external applications are of little avail, until the system shall have been amended. In adults, excrescences are sometimes form- ing within and at the verge of the anus, as- suming various shapes, to which terms have been applied expressive of such variety, as ficus, crista, thymus. In children, the dis- ease seldom assumes any other form than that of a nearly circular induration, almost external to the sphincter. Where the disease, how- ever, has been of long continuance, the tumor will be intersected by rhagades or fissures, which bleed on the relaxation of the sphincter. For the removal of this disease, in addi- tion to frequent tepid ablution, the sulphate and carbonate of magnesia, or minute doses ._ of calomel with castor oil, should be admi- nistered every morning: but the bitter purga- tive should especially be avoided, the disease being aggravated by their stimulant effect on the rectum. If, after the mucous secretions are amended, the ulceration should continue, or induration remains, the lotio flava, or lotio arg. nitr. should be carefully applied, twice in a day.