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Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 9: Comprising Ten Volumes on the Year's Progress in Medicine and Surgery; Skin and Venereal Diseases Miscellaneous Topics
The therapeutic indications are clear. Destruction of the culpable telangiectases should be the first consideration. A bead of chromic acid fused upon a probe is an excellent cauterizer and its action can be checked at any time by the application of an alkali. Repeated cauterizations may be necessary, especially within the nose, for here the bleeding frequently takes place from very small telangiectases which are easily overlooked. The patient should 'be instructed to report for treatment, if possible, each time the nose bleeds, for it is only by the repeated destruction of small telangiectases that one can check the epistaxis and at the same time avoid widespread cicatrization of the mucous membranes. It is futile to treat the secondary anemia 30 long as the hemorrhages continue. Remove the cause and the effect is readily amenable to treatment.
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