470 SCUKVICAL ERUPTIONS. [BOOK III. 



9. Mallenders and Salle nders. 



Scurvy eruptions on the bend of the knee-joints, 

 or on the corresponding bend in the hock joint ; 

 the first mentioned term being applied to those 

 eruptions that appear upon the fore leg, the second, 

 sallender, is confined to those of the hinder leg. 

 A crack, with much soreness, accompanies both. — 

 The cause may be found in gross habit of body, at- 

 tended by suppression of some ordinary evacuation, 

 as stool, urine, or perspiration ; therefore, to 



Cure the patient, restore the defective evacuation 

 by giving the purging-ball prescribed at page 244, 

 or that at page 245, according to circumstances ; or 

 a urine-ball, or the emetic tartar, at page 190, or 

 387, in smaller doses, and the scurf decreases until 

 it wholly disappears. 



Let the hair be cut off close from the part affected, 

 and the scurf well washed with strong soap-suds, 

 and then rub over it daily, of the 



Ointment for Scurvy Eruption, 



Red precipitate powder, half an ounce. 



Hogs' lard, 2 ounces. Mixed well together. 

 Sometimes, apoidtice, in which is introduced ace- 

 tated litharge, becomes necessary, when the erup- 

 tion is divided by a gaping crack, which the oint- 

 ment may have occasioned. The blue ointment of 

 the shops is employed by some instead of the above 

 ointment : the effect is not materially varied by this 

 adoption. 



