Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Fig. 200.—Psoriasis in a Girl Seven Years Old. (Sheffield.) ment is necessarily symptomatic, and very unsatisfactory as toultimate cure. Internally we may try small doses of arsenic, toArsenic, be continued for several months, or thyroid extract. Externallywe resort to alkaline baths, and. after removal of the scales, toan ointment composed of chrysarobin or salicylic acid andichthyol. B Acidi salicvlici,Resorcini, Ichthyoli aa 3ss I 2 Ung. sulphuris 3ij | 60 Sig.:
Modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases of childern; a treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of infancy anf childhood . Fig. 200.—Psoriasis in a Girl Seven Years Old. (Sheffield.) ment is necessarily symptomatic, and very unsatisfactory as toultimate cure. Internally we may try small doses of arsenic, toArsenic, be continued for several months, or thyroid extract. Externallywe resort to alkaline baths, and. after removal of the scales, toan ointment composed of chrysarobin or salicylic acid andichthyol. B Acidi salicvlici,Resorcini, Ichthyoli aa 3ss I 2 Ung. sulphuris 3ij | 60 Sig.: To be applied twice a day. R Chrysarobini, Ichthyoli aa 3j | 4 Ung. petrolati 3ij j 60 Sig.: To be applied once or twice a day. HERPES Fig. 201.—Psoriasis of the Legs. (Shoemaker.) HERPES ZOSTER(Shingles). Contrary to what is observed in adults, herpes zoster in children is rarely accompanied by severe neuralgic pain. The eruption usually appears suddenly in the form of groups of vesicles along the tracts of either the intercostal or pudendal vesicles . ... along nerves, or the brachial plexus. The vesicles remain either nerve 1 . tracts. isolated or coalesce and form large patches covered by yellowish-brown crusts. Different patches often exhibit different stages ofdevelopment or decline. As a rule, the eruption is unilateral. The course of the disease is usually completed within twoweeks, except in cases leading to deep ulceration and sloughing Soughing!(herpes gangrenosus), a very rare condition, usually the result ofsecondary infection. The treatment consists of local application 598 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. of a dusting powder or ointment composed of stearate of zincwith or without 2 per cent, of bismuth subnitra
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