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Title: A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hyde, James Nevins, 1840-1910
Subjects: Skin
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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migationbeing preferably conducted before the hour of sleep. In the morning,a bath may be taken for the purpose of cleanliness. It is more con-venient in the generation of the vapor in this way, to make use ofMr. Henry Leas safety fumigating lamp, but the materials requisite 533 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. for the production of all desired effects, with the exception of thealcohol lamp, can be procured of any good tinsmith. In the city,male patients arc often sent to the bath-houses, where the fumiga-tion is conducted in the daytime; and rarely experience as a con-sequence unpleasant effects, such as arc popularly associated withtaking cold after exposure to the action of mercury. In the mostof these establishments, provision is made so that the head also canbe exposed to the mercurial fumes, respiration being conductedthrough a tube in connection with pure air, a provision useful in cer-tain cases of emergency; and only emergency cases should berequired to resort to such measures. Fig. 68.
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Leas lamp fur fuaiigat The happy effect of the mercurial vapor bath is often marvellouslyrapid. A generalized syphiloderm may become well-nigh indistin-guishable upon the surface after four baths at intervals of two dayseach. With this potent agency at hand, it can be well understoodhow the skilled physician can afford to watch his syphilitic patientfrom week to week, taking a dose of iron internally and employinginunction externally, the few lesions fading slowly from the surface,all fears quieted, and the nutrition sustained at a high grade. Incomparison with this combined method, the swallowing of blue mass,or calomel and opium, should be regarded as a more clumsy anddangerous procedure. The hypodermatic injection of mercury, largely popularized by SYPHILODERMA. 539 Lewin,1 though very frequently employed in Europe in the treatmentof syphilis, is open to the serious objection of requiring the aid of thephysician for the administration of each dose. It is an efficient,speedy, and sa

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