Identifier: skinitscaretr00maur (find matches)
Title: The skin, its care and treatment; teaching every detail of this important work in a simple, concise and practical manner
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Maurer, Ruth D. (Johnson), 1870- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Skin
Publisher: Chicago, McIntosh Battery & Optical Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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en be em-ployed to open the pimple and the tiny scoop used forpressing out the contents. After all the pus or cheesy mat-ter that will come away easily has been pressed out, thecavity may be entered by a fine-pointed needle attached toa hypodermic syringe and conveying a stream of dioxideof hydrogen. This must be injected carefully, a little at atime as the pus unites with the dioxide to form a sizzlingwhite foam. The injections of the dioxide should be con-tinued until no more foam appears. The method of usingthis syringe is plainly shown in Illustration 12. As, in theblackhead work, caution should be observed, as to openingmany pimples at a time or many in the same locality, forthe face frequently is extremely sensitive and it is impos-sible to do much work at a sitting. After the pimples havebeen opened and the contents expressed, deep massageshould be given with the acne ,cream and the treatment fin-ished by the use of the hot and cold water and the auto-matic massage and mallets.
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Figure 12. Using the Hypodermic Syringe, THE SKIN. 71 In case there is any fear about using the hypodermicneedle, much good may be accomplished in this work byplacing on the skin sheets of absorbent cotton soaked in thedioxide of hydrogen. If the blood flows freely from theseincisions, so much the better, as this assists greatly in car-rying away the effete matter. Small pimples in which the pus seems upon the point ofbursting out should all be opened and the skin covered withthe sheets of cotton soaked in the dioxide, after pressurehas removed all of the contents that will come out readily. In many instances, where the face is covered with pim-ples and treatments have to be continued for some time,the smaller ones that have not been touched will graduallygrow more and more minute and will finally disappear.When this tendency exists, it is, of course, unnecessary toopen them. The scars left from these incisions are generally in-visible. Of course many instances have been quoted wherep

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