inacy of
the disease depends. When this is ascertained, the remedies will
naturally suggest themselves, and the malady will generally yield to
them. But, although the treatment of this disease has entered largely
into our practice at the Invalid's Hotel, and has been attended by the
most happy results, yet the cases have presented so great a diversity of
abnormal features, and have required so many variations in the course of
treatment, to be met successfully, that we frankly acknowledge our
inability to so instruct the unprofessional reader as to enable him to
detect the various systemic faults common to this ever-varying disease,
and adjust remedies to them, so as to make the treatment uniformly
successful. If the several plans of treatment which we have given do not
conquer the disease, we can not better advise the invalid than to
recommend him to employ a physician of well-known skill in the treatment
of chronic diseases. If such a one is not accessible for personal
consultation, a careful statement of all the prominent symptoms, in
writing, may be forwarded to a specialist of large experience in this
disease, who will readily detect the real fault, in which the ailment
has its foundation. Particularly easy will it be for him to do so, if he
be an expert in the analysis of urine. A vial of that which is first
passed in the morning, should be sent with the history of the case, as
chronic rheumatism effects characteristic changes in this excretion,
which clearly and unmistakably indicate the abnormal condition of the
fluids of the body upon which the disease depends.

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DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

ECZEMATOUS AFFECTIONS.

Eczematous affections constitute a very important class of skin
diseases, the prominent characteristics of which are _eruption_ and
_itching_. They are progressive in character, passing through all the
successive stages of development, from mere redness of the skin to
desquamation, or thickening of the cuticle. The affections belonging to
this group are _eczema, psoriasis, pityriasis, lichen, impetigo, gutta
rosacea,_ and _scabies_, or _itch_. A careful examination of each of
these diseases shows it to be a modified form of eczema, and, therefore,
they demand similar treatment.

ECZEMA. (_Humid Tetter, Salt-rheum, Running Scall_, or _Heat Eruption_.)
The term _eczema_ is used to designate the commonest kind of skin
diseases.

In this disease, the mi