A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases: According to the Arrangement of Dr. Willan, Exhibiting a Concise View of the Diagnostic Symptoms and the Method of Treatment

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Longman, 1836 - 404 páginas
 

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Página xviii - DELINEATIONS OF THE CUTANEOUS DISEASES COMPRISED IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE LATE DR. WILLAN ; Including the greater Part of the Engravings of that Author, in an improved State, and completing the Series as intended to have been finished by him.
Página 365 - ... and other joints are attacked in succession, whilst every revolving year bears with it a trophy of this slow march of death. Thus are the limbs deprived one by one of their extremities, till at last they become altogether useless. Even now death comes not to the relief of, nor is desired by the patient, who ' dying by inches,' and a spectacle of horror to all besideS, still cherishes fondly the spark of life remaining, and eats voraciously all he can procure : he will often crawl about with little...
Página 327 - ... the color of the skin. The tubercles were all sessile, upon a contracted base, without any peduncle. From the larger ones a small quantity of milk-like fluid issued, on pressure, from a minute aperture, such as might be made by a needle's point, and which only became visible on the exit of the fluid.
Página 343 - ... of that part of the face which is affected. The redness commonly appears first at the end of the nose, and afterwards spreads from both sides of the nose to the cheeks, the whole of which, however, it seldom covers.
Página 329 - ... and progress : in some cases they reach their full size in the space of a week (attaining the magnitude of a large wart), and then begin to subside, becoming flattened to the level of the cuticle in about ten days ; in other instances they advance less rapidly, and the elevation which they acquire is less considerable ; in fact they are less distinctly tubercular. But in these cases they are more permanent ; and as they gradually subside to the level of the surface, they creep along in one direction,...
Página 293 - ... upon each patch. This discharges a little turbid serum, and has a white base, with a slight elevation at the edges ; and by an inaccurate or inexperienced observer it may be readily mistaken for chancre ; more especially if any escharotic has been applied to it, which produces much irritation, as well as a deep-seated hardness beneath the sore, such as is felt in true chancre. If no irritant be applied, the slight...
Página 292 - ... one, or sometimes two red patches, about the size of a silver penny, upon which are clustered five or six minute transparent vesicles, which, from their extreme tenuity, appear of the same red hue as the base on which they stand. In the course of twenty-four or thirty hours the vesicles enlarge and become of a milky hue, having lost their transparency, and on the third day they are coherent and assume an almost pustular appearance.
Página 209 - Porrigo appears in distinct and even distant patches, of an irregularly circular figure, upon the scalp, forehead, and neck.* It commences with clusters of small light yellow pustules, which soon break and form thin scabs...
Página 311 - ... same individual, at irregular intervals, sometimes without any obvious or adequate cause. The Eczema rubrum is preceded by a sense of stiffness, burning heat, and itching, in the part where it commences, which is most frequently the upper and inner surface of the thighs, and about the scrotum in men: but sometimes it appears first in the groins, axillae, or in the bend of the arms, or about the wrists and hands, or in the neck. These sensations are soon followed by an appearance of redness, and...
Página 350 - I shall not treat at any length, for I can mention no medicine which has been of any essential service in the cure of it.

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