LOCAL TREATMENT OF PSORIASIS.Read in the Section on Dermatology at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association.

Abstract

Psoriasis stands in the front rank of those skin diseases whose course and duration is often chronic, accompanied by frequent relapses. This disease is one that often exhausts the medical man's storehouse of remedies, as well as his ability to keep the patient satisfied with his condition and treatment prescribed. One of the obstacles to proper local treatment is the usual objection of the patient to the remedies employed, their odor, staining qualities or ointment consistence. The essayist has no lauded specifics to offer, whose perfume or color charm the patient's nose or eyes, but desires to call out discussion on the few remedies which have been of any special value. Can these few remedies, whose objectionable features have been a vexed question, be dressed in new clothes that will give a less objectionable treatment to the patient? Can we use more agreeable remedies than the ones referred to, and