Identifier: photographicatla04foxg (find matches)
Title: Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, George Henry, 1846-1937
Subjects: Skin Diseases Dermatology
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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spontaneousrecovery, although the central portion of the patch may be convertedinto a cicatricial area. Fissures and raw spots may be noted butthere is never any extensive ulceration. The accompanying plate presents three illustrations of thedisease. The upper hand, that of a young man, shows the simplestand most frequent form. The patch has become flattened and mani-fests a slight serpiginous tendency. The lower hand, that of a managed forty-five, shows an extensive and typical form of the disease.The eruption in this case improved under treatment at the outdoordepartment of the Skin and Cancer Hospital, but after the patienthad allowed eight years to elapse between visits it was found tohave increased considerably in extent. Curetting beneath a spray ofethyl chloride is a plan of treatment which in such cases promisesthe best results. The boy, nine years old, whose leg is portrayed,had no eruption save the patch in the popliteal space which was ofeighteen months duration. PLATE XC.
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lit, (900, by G. II. Fox TUBERCULOSIS VERRUCOSA. PLATE XCI.URTICARIA URTICARIA Urticaria is the only disease which can lay sole claim to oneof the primary lesions of the skin—the wheal. This is a rounded,linear or irregular, but always circumscribed, oedema of the skin. Itdevelops usually in a few minutes and rarely lasts longer than a fewhours. External causes, such as a mosquito bite or contaft with anettle, may produce but one or a few wheals. In urticaria of internalorigin a large portion of the body may be affefted. The upper illustration of the accompanying plate shows apeculiar neurotic condition of the skin which may present a perfectlynormal appearance until some external irritation evokes the character-istic wheals. This condition has been described as urticaria faftitiaor dermographism. In the patient, whose back is shown, it hadexisted since childhood. About five minutes before the photographwas taken the crosses and lettering were gently scratched upon theskin by means

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