Treatment

This affection is easily cured, provided proper treatment is instituted and persisted in. The one prominent indication is to destroy the superficial epithelial cells, and bring about their exfoliation, bringing with them the parasite. The list of agents that will accomplish this is along one; but those found most generally useful are lotions of bichloride, tincture of iodine, sulphur ointment, and chrysarobin. If seven or eight grains of the latter be added to an ounce of traumaticin, and painted upon the spots for several days in succession the epidermis will soon desquamate. For the treatment to be effectual, it is necessary that every spot, no matter how minute, should receive the selected application. This is rarely done the first time, and the case should be inspected weekly by the physician, and the applications made by him so far as practicable. It must not be forgotten that the under clothes need disinfection or destruction; otherwise the affection is very liable to recur.