Essentials of Diseases of the Skin / Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

Cauterization—with nitrate of silver, with applications of pyrogallic acid in ointment or in liquor gutta-perchæ, fifteen to thirty per cent. strength, and with solutions (cautiously employed) of caustic potash, and exceptionally with the galvano-cautery.

Fig. 43.

Single Scarifier.

Fig. 44.

Multiple Scarifier. (As modified by Van Harlingen.)

Operative—scarification, either punctate or linear, and erosion with the curette. (See treatment of lupus vulgaris.)

Lupus Vulgaris.

(Synonyms: Lupus; Lupus Exedens; Lupus Vorax; Tuberculosis of the Skin.)