Alphonse Teste

A Homoeopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Children Alphonse Teste

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ... had disappeared from the head, and the hair began to grow abundantly. I have not seen these children since; but 1 heard from them the following summer. Their tinea, (was it tinea?) had not re-appeared. Perhaps the same treatment, which succeeded with them, would be applicable, or would deserve to be tried, in other analogous and intractable affections of the scalp. PITYRIASIS. The desquamation of the epidermis is thus named. It is the herpes fitrfuraceus of Alibert, and the scaly tetter of the vulgar. No one, assuredly, would call a physician for so trifling a disease; and yet light as it is, the disease might embarrass more than one conscientious physician; for, when seated on the scalp, where its presence is excessively annoying to young females who are aflected with it, it obstinately resists the greater part of the known remedies. Reiterated experiences have, however, convinced me, that cantharis is the specific for pityriasis. A few globules, of the thirtieth dilution of this medicine, in a glass of water, of which a teaspoonful should be administered, morning and evening, for three or four days. STROPHULUS. We so call an eruption of little pimples, that are hard to the touch, compact, red or whitish, developing themselves, first on the face, then on the limbs, never terminating in pustules, crusts, or ulcerations, but sometimes leaving behind them a slight efflorescence, which is commonly accompanied by great itching. These pimples may be rare or numerous, disseminated over the whole body, or accumulated together upon a part, and are sometimes intermixed with erythematous spots. Strophulus, a disease very common among children, shows itself, principally, on the face of children at the breast. This exanthem almost constantly coincides with a more or l...