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applications without; when this is necessary, you will
find slippery elm the best.
Herpes labialis requires cooling and astringent lotions.
Cream is a good application; solution of sugar of lead
will most readily relieve this.
In regard to the treatment for ringworm, those reme-
dies that are recommended for pra~pptialis are highly
extolled for the cure of this variety of tetter; but the
most effectual and certain mode of relieving or curing
ringworm, is to cut a blister plaster long and very nar-
row, and apply it just over the inflamed ring. By suf-
fering it to remain for three or four hours, it will draw
a blister, which you will dress with simple cerate; it
will effectually cure the ringworm.
SCABIES.-PSORA.
Itch is described by most authors as a pustular dis-
ease, but with us it is generally vesicular. It is a con-
tagious eruption, and always attended with the most
excruciating itching. >
I am not aware how long this disease would last if
suffered to run on; it is attended with no danger except
to infants.
There are,two varieties of itch, but it is not the least
important to draw the distinction. One of the peculi-
arities of this disease that is particularly noticed, is that
the affected parts itch much more after night, and espe-
cially if the patient is in bed, than during the day.
The eruption at first is very minute and red, with a
transparent, viscid liquid at the summit. The vesicles
are almost always distinct, and not clustered like many
other cutaneous eruptions.394
ITCH.
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Massie, J. Cam. A Treatise on the Eclectic Southern Practice of Medicine, book, 1854; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143817/m1/394/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.