The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 406 of 653washings the disorder is reduced to its minimum proportions. Theformation of pustules is, moreover, best prevented by the comedon480 Diseases of the Skin.being squeezed ont. The nails must not be used for such^n operation, but a small watch-key, the opening of which must neither betoo narrow nor angular, is placed upon the spot so that the blackpoint of the comedo is exactly encompassed by the opening of thekey which is firmly and vertically pressed upon the skin. This habetter be done previous to washing. By resorting to such simpleproceedings, the face can be kept tolerably clean.A treatment of acne with internal remedies is undoubtedly possible, but likewise superfluous in most cases. In very bad caseshave derived very satisfactory results from Arsenic, but a cure hnever been achieved. Hartmann and others likewise recommend :Cantharides^ Sulphury Staphysagria^ Antim. cruduniy Dulcamara^MezereuMy Natrum muriaticum^ Acidum nitricum^ Capsicum^ Sepia^etc. In our opinion, however, internal remedies need not be resorted to as long as a non-medicinal external management willaccomplish all that can be desired.12. Sycosis, Hentaii^ra.Barber^a Itch*Tills is exclusively a disease of the male sex, and occurs aboutthe age of twenty-four or twenty-five years, when the hair of thebeard, grows thick and hard. If persons who do not shave areattacked by it, which is a very rare occurrence, its causes are vobscure. In cases where the beard is shaved, the eruption may becaused by bad or irritating soap or by a dull razor, and, althouggenerally so frightfully obstinate, yet may, under such circumstances, heal spontaneously even without much loss of time ; allthat nead be done is to omit shaving the afiEected parts. Dirt ansnufiT likewise seem to occasion sycosis.The disease generally sets in, like herpes labialis, with a sensaof burning, heat and tension ; most commonly we first notice oathe chin a small cluster of isolated, red tubercles of a pretty lsize, ea^h of which is perforated by a hair. Some of these tubercin a few days change to pustules, break and form dark crusts, witout the infiltration which forms the little tubercle, disappearinthat account. In spite of all care, and generally in consequencecontinued irritation, the number of tubercles increases slowly buuninterruptedly, the former ones growing larger; the skin uponwhich they are seated, becomes more and more infiltrated ; afterbreaking, the pustules change to ulcers ; deep, ulcerated rhagadeand finally bullions infiltrations of a pale-red color are perceiSycosis, Mentagra. 481The patients do not complain of much pain, but their ugly appearance fills them with anxiety. The disease is extremely obstinateand may last for years. It is true that it not unirequently abatehttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt