The Use and Value of Arsenic in the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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There is probably no empirical remedy in medicine better' known or more frequently prescribed than is arsenic in the treatment of diseases of the skin, and yet I venture to say that there is no remedy whose action is so little understood, and withal whose effect is more uncertain, than is that of the same drug, as generally used for, when we consider diseases of the skin as a class, without any' special reference to the individual case or the diagnosis, arsenic is not only useless in a very large sh are of the cases, but is very frequently absolutely harmful.

The subject has presented itself thus to my mind, because in my practice it has been very uncommon for me to meet with a patient, even with eruptions which have proved to be parasitic or syphi'litic, who has been previously treated by general practitioners, who has not taken arsenic, and it is very commonly the failure of this supposed specific which has led the physician to seek the consultation.

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