682 TREATMENT OF ECZEMATOUS ERUPTIONS. 



lotion ; while in the chronic, the crude acid may be applied, for one 

 flressing, undiluted. In this form it stimulates the skin to healthy 

 action ; but when applied after the first time, it must be diluted 

 with oil or glycerine, one to twenty parts, or inflammation and 

 sloughing will be induced. As primary replications, even in 

 the treatment of chronic grease, poultices are very useful ; they 

 clean the parts, soften and remove scabs, and allay the inflam- 

 mation of the skin ; boiled turnips are best, and they may con- 

 tain yeast, charcoal, carbolic acid, or the hypo-sulphite of soda, 

 as deodorisers. 



In chronic grease, after the bowels hare been welL opened by 

 a cathartic, arsenic and diuretics are to bo prescribed until the 

 anasarcous swellings disappear ; and should there be a disposi- 

 tion to a return of the disease, the arsenic is to be continued, and. 

 combined with tonics. 



When it is deemed necessary to change the arsenic for 

 another remedy, the sulphates of iron and copper may be sub- 

 ctituted. 



Chronic eczema, when expressed by an eruption oth^ than. 

 that of grease, requires a speciality of treatment applicable to 

 itself. 



1st. The crusts and scabs, after being soaked with oil for a few 

 hours, are to be removed by washing ; if the hair is long it must 

 be clipped, and this applies to the greasy as weD as to the other 

 forms of eczema. When the hair is removed and the parts 

 thoroughly cleaned, a sufficiency of the following may be applied, 

 not only to the diseased, but to a good deal of healthy skin ; 

 remembering that whatever the remedy may be, much depends 

 upon its effectual application : — 



I^ Sulphur sublimata, . «. • ^^Hi' 



Potass carbonatis, .... 3iA'-. 



Acid carbolicuip, . , , ^ ^i. 



Adipis, ...... I-Kxxii. 



01. 01ivs£, §xxxii. 



Tliis is to be left on the skin for two or three days, and tlieui 

 washed off with soft aoap and warm water. It acta as aj 

 cutaneous stiinulaut. 



The other remedies available in chronic eczema bxq lime 

 ■water, bichloride of mercury in weak solution, tar ointment, 



