CURE OF A CASE OF LEPROSY. case the reported (Monatshejte fur praktische Dermatologie, No. 23, 1888) by Dreckmann, the disease was fairly advanced, had lasted four years, and presented numerous nodes, tubercles, and patches of infiltration. There was also marked anesthesia of the feet, legs, and hands. The mucous membrane was also involved; swelling of the conjunctive, a discharging ulcer in the nasal septum, whitish patches on larynx posteriorly, thickening of the left vocal cord, a small tubercle on the point ot the epiglottis, and hard nodular infiltration of In
both tonsils.
The
patient,
a
years, was, at this and weak. The treatment, by
forty-two
Brazilian, aged time, thin, pale, means
of pyro-
gallic acid, chrysarobin, and salicylic acid,
to-
gether with the internal use ot ichthyol, as suggested by Unna, was instituted, and finally, in the course of several months, all vestiges of the disease had disappeared, and the patient
had grown stout and strong. The pyrogallic acid was applied mainly to the hands, feet, and legs, in the form of a ten
PHTHISIS FROM HOUSE SWEEPINGS.
June, 1889.]
the other parts with a salve of strength; these were applied twice daily. To obstinate nodules and patches of infiltration, the same remedies were used in To the face a the form of plaster-mulls. acid creasote and salicylic plaster-mull was Discrete and sharply applied, once daily. circumscribed nodules, when conveniently situated, were excised. The conjunctival swelling disappeared spontaneously. The ulcer in the nose, the nodules on the tonsils, etc., were successfully treated with the actual cautery. The constitutional treatment consisted mainly in the administration of ichthyol, beginning with six grains daily, and gradually increasing to fortyfive grains. Under the use of these measures, the writer states, au apparent cure resulted? the general health being restored, aud all evidence of the disease dissipated. [As incidental points of interest in the report, may be mentioned that the patient's wife had developed tlie disease eighteen years before; the wife's brother was also affected. The children, four in number, from fifteen to twentyone years old, showed no sign of the disease. The patient's parents and six brothers, all living in the same neighbourhood, were also healthy.?Eds.]?The. American Journal of the Medical Sciences, March 1889, p. 315. per cent,
salve,
chrysarobin,
same
183
both tonsils.
The
patient,
a
years, was, at this and weak. The treatment, by
forty-two
Brazilian, aged time, thin, pale, means
of pyro-
gallic acid, chrysarobin, and salicylic acid,
to-
gether with the internal use ot ichthyol, as suggested by Unna, was instituted, and finally, in the course of several months, all vestiges of the disease had disappeared, and the patient
had grown stout and strong. The pyrogallic acid was applied mainly to the hands, feet, and legs, in the form of a ten
PHTHISIS FROM HOUSE SWEEPINGS.
June, 1889.]
the other parts with a salve of strength; these were applied twice daily. To obstinate nodules and patches of infiltration, the same remedies were used in To the face a the form of plaster-mulls. acid creasote and salicylic plaster-mull was Discrete and sharply applied, once daily. circumscribed nodules, when conveniently situated, were excised. The conjunctival swelling disappeared spontaneously. The ulcer in the nose, the nodules on the tonsils, etc., were successfully treated with the actual cautery. The constitutional treatment consisted mainly in the administration of ichthyol, beginning with six grains daily, and gradually increasing to fortyfive grains. Under the use of these measures, the writer states, au apparent cure resulted? the general health being restored, aud all evidence of the disease dissipated. [As incidental points of interest in the report, may be mentioned that the patient's wife had developed tlie disease eighteen years before; the wife's brother was also affected. The children, four in number, from fifteen to twentyone years old, showed no sign of the disease. The patient's parents and six brothers, all living in the same neighbourhood, were also healthy.?Eds.]?The. American Journal of the Medical Sciences, March 1889, p. 315. per cent,
salve,
chrysarobin,
same
183
