Treatment

The treatment is, in the majority of cases, very satisfactory, but in order that a successful result may be attained speedily it is necessary that the parasiticide should be made to reach the deeper parts of the nail, and that the nail structure should be kept soaked in the parasiticide lotion. Scrape off some of the loose laminae of the nails, then apply every second or third day some strong acetic acid to the seat of the change, the whole nail area, if necessary, taking care not to make the matrix too tender; and then keep the nail or nails soaked in a solution of hyposulphite of soda (3ss to 3vj of water). Perseverance with the lotion will certainly cure the disease.

There are a few diseases of the nails that can hardly be classified, yet are of sufficient importance to demand a passing notice; and we know of no more suitable place than the present one to take them up. The first of which we will make mention is that very uncomfortable condition known as: