Excerpt from The Medical Bulletin, 1895, Vol. 17: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery Here, as in other patients whom I have shown you, we obtain the same history of the psoriasis developing first upon the leg, in front of or just below the knee. Moderate itching attended the beginning of the disease, but soon subsided. In this respect, also, the his tory agrees with that of other cases. As regards its evolution, it is distinguished by being rapid and diffuse. In a few weeks' time numerous patches appeared and coalesced, so as to form an almost uniform surface of diseased action. The scales have, for the most part, been detached, leaving the front of each leg almost covered by a dry, slightly raised, somewhat-rough, dark-red and shining eruption. This man was directed to sponge his face every night with hot water and to wash every morning with naphthol soap. In respect to the psoriasis, he was placed upon the wine of antimony in doses of 5, increasing to to, minims three times a day. As a local applica tion to the psoriatic patches, he was ordered an ointment composed of r drachm of salicylic acid and an ounce of the ointment of the nitrate of mercury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.