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astiingent substance like iodoform-tannin, dermatol, glutol, amy Infor m , 
thioform, or a mixture of zinc sulphate, alum and boric acid, and covered 
xvitli a smgical dressing. The dressing must be applied with moderate 
pressure, and renewed daily. Ointments are to be avoided until the sur¬ 
face becomes dry, when it may be beneficial to apply a little red oxide of 
mercury and paraffin or lanolin ointment. 
Treatment should be continued until the last trace of discharge has 
disappeared; the lower parts of the limb must then be kept as dry as 
possible, and any lelapse treated in the above manner. 
Dalrymple recommends hot poultices of wheat-flour and linseed-meal, to 
which acetic acid is added as the poultice becomes firm. This is applied for 
twenty-four hours, the surface of the skin cleansed with a dry cloth and 
afterwards rinsed with chloride of zinc solution. He states having thus cured 
cases m fourteen days. 
Straube lately recommended camphor dissolved in ether, and mixed with 
three times its weight of vaseline; this ointment is rubbed into the diseased 
skin To check evaporation, the diseased parts are .covered with carbolic 
wadding and surrounded with flannel bandages. At first the dressing is 
changed daily, later every two or three days. When there was much itching 
Straube gave arsenic internally with success. Moller seems to prefer sulphuric 
acid and formalin to all other materials. Their application is certainly painful, 
but the results are generally good. J r 
