Essentials of Diseases of the Skin: Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of MedicineStelwagon, Henry Weightman
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Essentials of Diseases of the Skin: Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Skin -- Diseases
Daily shampooing with soap and water, and the twice daily application of
a five per cent. carbolic acid lotion, together with the use of a
fine-toothed comb, is a safe and efficient method for dispensary
practice; as it is, indeed, for any class of patients.
#How are the ova or their shells to be removed from the hair?#
By the frequent use of acid or alkaline lotions, such as dilute acetic
acid and vinegar, or solutions of sodium carbonate and borax.
#Pediculosis Corporis.#
#Describe the symptoms of pediculosis corporis.#
Pediculosis corporis is dependent upon the presence of the pediculus
corporis (_pediculus vestimenti_), a larger variety than that infesting
the scalp. It is characterized by more or less general itching, together
with various inflammatory lesions and excoriations. As the parasites are
to be found chiefly in the folds and seams of the clothing, visiting the
skin for the purpose of feeding, the various symptoms--the minute
hemorrhagic puncta showing the points at which they have been sucking,
and the consequent papules, pustules and excoriations--are, therefore,
to be found most abundantly on those parts with which the clothing comes
closely in contact, as, for instance, around the neck, across the
shoulders, around the waist, and down the outside of the thighs. It is
uncommon in children.
[Illustration: Fig. 81.
Pediculus Corporis x 25. (_After Duhring._) Female. Dorsal surface.]
#State the diagnostic characters of pediculosis corporis.#
The presence of the minute hemorrhagic puncta, the multiform character
and peculiar distribution of the eruption. Careful search will almost
invariably disclose one or more pediculi.
#What is the treatment of pediculosis corporis?#
The clothing and bed-coverings are to be thoroughly baked or boiled, the
pediculi and their ova being in this manner destroyed; a thymol or
carbolized boric-acid lotion may be used to relieve the cutaneous
irritation.
When attention to the wearing apparel is not immediately practicable,
ointments of sulphur and staphisagria, and lotions of carbolic acid, may
be advised as temporary measures. The wearing of a bag of loosely woven
texture containing some lump sulphur next to the skin is useful in such
cases; at the temperature of the body the sulphur undergoes slow
oxidation. In hairy individuals the malady is often persistent, due to
the fact that ova have become attached to the hair and a new progeny
soon hatched out. Continued treatment over a few weeks will usually
suffice to rid the patient of their presence.
#Pediculosis Pubis.#
#Describe the symptoms of pediculosis pubis.#
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