Treatment

The first care of the physician is to attend to the general condition of the patients as regards their emunctory organs and their hygiene. Anxiety, worry, and depressing influences must be neutralized. The patient must be ordered to get good air, to take plain, nourishing food, and to avoid luxuries of the table, overwork, and fatigue of all kinds.

Locally I know of nothing better than, first of all, vapor baths to encourage the skin to proper action, and the use of a weak lotion made of liq. carbonis detergens 3 jj to 3 ss with aquae 3 vj applied night and morning. Subsequently sulphuret of potassium baths may be regularly given for a long time, and followed up by the drinking of some sulphurous or iron waters.

According to old-school authorities, the main remedy is quinine; iron, nux vomica and cod-liver oil are also recommended.

The principal internal homoeopathic remedies are: Potassium iodide, Kreosote, and Magnesia carb.