. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. igation preferably being conducted beforethe hours of sleep. In the morning a bath may be taken for the pur-pose of cleanliness. It is more convenient in the generation of the NEW-GROWTHS. 645 vapor in this way to make use of Mr. Henry Lees safety fumigating-lamp, but the materials requisite for the production of all desired effects,with the exception of the alcohol lamp and the drug, can be procuredof any good tinsmith. In the city, male patients are often sent tobath-houses, where the fumigation is con
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. igation preferably being conducted beforethe hours of sleep. In the morning a bath may be taken for the pur-pose of cleanliness. It is more convenient in the generation of the NEW-GROWTHS. 645 vapor in this way to make use of Mr. Henry Lees safety fumigating-lamp, but the materials requisite for the production of all desired effects,with the exception of the alcohol lamp and the drug, can be procuredof any good tinsmith. In the city, male patients are often sent tobath-houses, where the fumigation is conducted in the daytime; and,as a consequence, they rarely experience unpleasant effects, such as arepopularly associated with taking cold after exposure to the actionof the mercury. In most of these establishments provision is so madethat the head also can be exposed to the mercurial fumes, respirationbeing conducted through a tube in connection with pure air, a provisionuseful in certain cases of emergency; and only emergency casesshould be required to resort to fumigation of the Lees safety-lamp for fumigation. The happy effect of the mercurial vapor-bath is often marvellouslyrapid. A generalized syphiloderm may become well-nigh indistin-guishable upon the surface after four baths at intervals of two dayseach. With this potent agency at hand, it can well be understoodhow the skilled physician can afford to watch from week to week hissyphilitic patient taking a dose of iron internally and employing inunc-tion externally, the few lesions fading slowly from the surface, all fearsquieted, and the nutrition sustained at a high grade. In comparisonwith this combined method, the swallowing of blue mass, or of calomeland opium, should be regarded as a more clumsy and dangerous pro-cedure. Subcutaneous Injection. The injection of mercury into the deepmuscular tissue (the gluteus in its thickest part with the muscle wholly 646 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. relaxed; the trapezius above th
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