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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 413 of 653following points, the diagnosis becomes quite easy : herpes alwayponsists of several vesicles seated close together upon an infiltbase, in a case of chancre we scarcely ever see the primitive veswhich is moreover completely isolated. If properly guarded, herpevery soon becomes covered with a scurf, the syphilitic ulcer neveThe use of treating herpes prseputialis that is fully out, with aview of shortening its course, is very questionable ; we have thohowever, on some occasions, that this course is abbreviated, if tproper remedy is administered. The main point is to counteractthe tendency to relapses which is just as great in this form of has in that- of herpes facialis. Hepar sulphuris meets both theseindications, provided its use is continued for some time afterthe disappearance of the efflorescence. Hartmann, on the contraryrecommends the red precipitate and nitric acid. Caladium seguinumis likewise indicated, but more in the herpes pudendorum than inthe preputial herpes of males. If balanorrhoea is present, a freqand careful cleansing of the parts is of course indispensable.c. Herpes Zoster j Zona^ Shingles.This form is characterized by the development of clusters ofvesicles, of which there are generally several, along the tract oor more spinal nerves, assuming on the trunk the shape of a zoneor belt, but on the extremities breaking out in a more irregularform.The etiology of this exanthem is involved in obscurity, but everyHerpes. 489physician of extensive practice must have noticed that at certainperiods of the year several cases break out simultaneously or sooone after the other, as though epidemic influences were prevailiuZoster commences almost without exception with rheumaticpains in the parts where it is to break out, and is often attendewith great lassitude and fever. The preliminary pains are notunfrequently like inflammatory pains. At the origin of one or mornerves, in company with a violent and painful burning, an efflorecence breaks out, after which papules arise, next, clusters of vewith tendency to run into one another. These vesicles remain outfor four to six days, after which they change to flat scurfs. Butinasmuch as a new cluster may arise after the first, and these sucessive crops may continue even after the first vesicles are entihealed, the whole process may last even three weeks. It is veryseldom the case that scratching or the friction of the clothes wicause a superficial ulceration. There maybe no pain during thecontinuance of the efflorescences, except the slight burning atteing the successive breaking out of new crops of vesicles ; but thgreatest distress to the patient is the burning itching which iscially severe in bed. After the falling off of the crusts all paigone, or the peculiar itching may perhaps continue for some time,or finally — and this is not by any means a rare occurrencecostal neuralgia of a very obstinate type may set in, apparentlymore readily the less scantily the herpes was out on the skin.Treatment. Although zoster is an entirely typical form ofhttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt