ICHTHYOSIS

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 22

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A roughne and thickening of the skin, portions of which become hard and scaly, and occasionally corneous, with a tendency to excrescences. Friction, warm bath, and occasionally stimulating ointments, have been of service in mitigating the progre of this disease; but it seldom yields permanently to any plan of treatment. [s. 596]