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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 427 of 653thirty ; women afflicted with uterine diseases, and likewise pregwomen, often suffer from it.Seborrhoea chiefly takes place on the hairy scalp, more frequentlon the sinciput than on the forehead, nose and on the sides of thorgan. On the hairy scalp the secreted sebum forms fine yellowishwhite scales or, as in the case of children, incrustations whichtimes acquire considerable thickness. In the face the sebum eitheremains liquid, in which case the affected part looks somewhatinjected and has a shining, greasy appearance, and the grease canbe removed by means of blotting paper; or else the sebum coagulates very rapidly, forming a yellowish, scurfy, soft lining, benwhich the skin has a natural appearance, except a little redder tusual; numerous excretory ducts of the follicular glands are likewise seen.This disorder, oscillating between more or less, always runs avery chronic course. It is of no great importance, for the generahealth is not affected by it, except that the patients experiencethe affected part a disagreeable tension and prickling, or a violitching on the hairy scalp. The seborrhoea of pregnant femalesalmost always ceases after confinement. Seborrhoea is importantin so far as it is easily confounded with pityriasis and eczema,mistake that is apt to lead to erroneous and even injurious managment. The diagnosis is secured by the circumstance that in seborrhoea the epidermis remains intact.X^eatmenU Internal treatment is only necessary in caseswhere the affection is of a primary origin, or depends upon uteridisorders. In the last-mentioned case our chief and, indeed, soleobject should be to remove the cause, for the cure of the uteri nderangements involves the disappearance of the cutaneous affectioAs a primary affection the disease is very obstinate ; quite recein the case of a robust young farmer, we have employed in vain506 Diseases of the Skin.every iraaginable remedy, more particularly Aurum, Graphites^Lycopodiuniy Acidum nitricum, Calcarea carbonica. The only remedythat improved the case, was Arsenicum. Tried remedies for thisdisease are as yet very scarce. [We have cured a case of seborrhcwhere the patient, a young woman, looked as if she were envelopedin a coat of liquid and shining grease, with nothing but Aconiteand Samhucus; the treatment lasted about two weeks. H.] Toomuch washing, either with cold or warm water, is hurtful. If soapis used, it must be very mild, lest it should prove disagreeable.Washing with spirits is sometimes usefuL Fat food must bestrictlj^' avoided.tit. FaTiuuHoney-ccnnb Tetter^ Scald-head.This cutaneous affection, which is likewise described under thenames of porrigo decalvans or tinea favosa, is characterized by taccumulation of multitudes of fungi around the roots of the hairshence their exclusive appearance on the hairy portions of the skihttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt