. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners . ps of Maws moleskin plaster. When thetrifling operation and dressing are complete, the patient shouldbear firm pressure over the corn without flinching, and walkwitli perfect comfort. The plaster remains till it separates spon-taneously, which is usually in the course of a few days. The KERATOSES. 237 corn is then macerated at night with an oil poultice, as describedabove, and the dressing afterward reapplied, usually the secondtime by the patient. Persistence in this course is followed bycomplete relie
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners . ps of Maws moleskin plaster. When thetrifling operation and dressing are complete, the patient shouldbear firm pressure over the corn without flinching, and walkwitli perfect comfort. The plaster remains till it separates spon-taneously, which is usually in the course of a few days. The KERATOSES. 237 corn is then macerated at night with an oil poultice, as describedabove, and the dressing afterward reapplied, usually the secondtime by the patient. Persistence in this course is followed bycomplete relief if the coverings of the feet be properly , employed by many, are usually unnecessary when thereis no ulceration of the hard corn; and are in this situation fre-quent sources of great distress. They are chiefly valuable inthe treatment of the soft variety ; but should always be appliedwith a skilled hand. Cornu Cutaneum. (Cutaneous Horns.)Cylindrical, conical, straight or twisted, angular, and other-wise irregularly shaped and sized corneous eminences, single or Fie. Varieties of cutaneous horns. multiple, are occasionally seen projecting from the scalp, fore-head, nose, lips, ears, penis, and extremities. They are named 238 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. from their resemblance to the similar appendages in horned cat-tle, but widely differ from the latter, which are always im-planted upon osseous tissue. They are formed of dense midmassed columns of epithelin, often resting upon somewhat pro-longed papillae. Occasionally, on section, they exhibit the con-centric arrangement of the epithelia seen in corns, hut, unlikethe latter, have reentrant basal depressions into which the pa-pillae below penetrate. At times they are implanted in a dilatedfollicle, in which case the glandular elements participate in theirformation. At times also, they represent a corneous transforma-tion of the epithelia which constitute warts. They are seen inall colors, hut are often brownish-bl
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