The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes : and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale.

  • Annandale, Thomas, 1839-1908.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes : and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    treated by removing the nail at once, and by freely applying caustic potass, nitric acid, or nitrate of silver to the sores: the application should be re- peated more than once, if necessary. Constitutional treatment in these cases will often be of much benefit, as this disease is so often con- nected with an unhealthy condition of the general system. In obstinate cases of onychia the matrix of the nail has been cut out or destroyed by some surgeons, but if the caustic be freely applied to the unhealthy textures when the nail is removed, this operation can never be required. Amputation of the extremity of the digit will be the best proceeding if this treatment fails. Inflammation and ulceration of the soft textures under and around the nails may occur in several or all the fingers and toes as a result of syphilis or some constitutional derangement. The syphilitic affections of the nails will presently receive a special notice. Disease of the Nails. The nails of the fingers and toes are occasionally themselves attacked with disease, from the effects of which their structure gradually undergoes a change. The French have described a disease of the nails under the term Psoriasis of the Nails.