The surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis . edin this way. Pruritus Genitalium.—This, like other purely pruriginous skin-affections without eruption, is excessively obstinate. Rheumatic andgouty subjects most often are the sufferers, and with such, any dieteticor hygienic errors seem liable to induce or aggravate the the exclusion of animal or vegetable parasites from the role ofcausality, the treatment consists in hygienic and dietetic precautions,with the internal exhibition of alkalies, and, if need be, tonics. Turk-ish and Eussian baths are often
The surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis . edin this way. Pruritus Genitalium.—This, like other purely pruriginous skin-affections without eruption, is excessively obstinate. Rheumatic andgouty subjects most often are the sufferers, and with such, any dieteticor hygienic errors seem liable to induce or aggravate the the exclusion of animal or vegetable parasites from the role ofcausality, the treatment consists in hygienic and dietetic precautions,with the internal exhibition of alkalies, and, if need be, tonics. Turk-ish and Eussian baths are often very serviceable. The following are among the most generally useful local measures,what is suitable for one case often having no effect upon another. Hy-giene and change of air are sometimes the only really curative agents. Hot water, tar, pure or in combination, yellow wash, chloral,camphor; or, V/, Cliloroform, 3 j. Adipis, I j. M. Keep corked in a vride-mouthcd bottle. Or, 5 Acid, hydrocyanic, dil., 3 ss- 3 iv. Glycerini, 3 j- Aqute, q. s. ad § j. M. Ft. PEDICULI PUBIS—PHLEGMONOUS ERYSIPELAS. 350 Finally, local electricity, either tlie induced or the continued current,has moderate curative power over some cases. Pediculi Pubis.—These parasites may be found upon the scrotum,as they may, in fact, upon any part of the body from which the hairsof puberty grow. They exist in greatest abundance, however, aboutthe genitals, and particularly on the monsveneris. They are plainly visible to thenaked eye, as are their eggs attached tothe hairs (Fig. 105, a). They may be de-stroyed by sprinkling the parts with calo-mel, or by applying a lotion of gr. j-iijcorrosive sublimate to | j of Cologne-water, or a wash made of equal parts oftincture delphinii and water, or by thefree local use of kerosene-oil. When they p^^ ^q- infest the whole body, some few usually escape the ordinary application of lotions, and these soon breed a newcrop. Care and patience, however, will always
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