Hand-book of skin diseases

Voorkant
D. Appleton & Company, 1872 - 467 pagina's
 

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Pagina 389 - Anaemia and hyperaemia of the skin happen from vasomotor irregularities, — some from the brain, some from the spinal cord, — or from the action of cold, or the electric current, etc.
Pagina 442 - ... fœtal stage, and the cause of their consequent modification of destiny — no longer to rise through those higher stages of animalization which culminate in the production of horn, but doomed in their crude condition to the lowest function which belongs to immature organic matter...
Pagina 448 - Firstly, The growth and independent life of the cell structures (fungi) when removed from the presence and influence of all living animal structures. I have over and over again made the elements of these cryptogams to vegetate freely in preparations put up for the purpose, and it has become a familiar experiment with me, although the failures — as one might expect — are in the great majority. Secondly, The peculiar action of reagents, and especially liquor potussae.
Pagina 265 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea ; scattered through a large body of sand or clay ; and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Pagina 450 - The difference in the appearance of favus, tinea tonsurans, and pityriasis versicolor, when fully developed, is so very striking as to lead to the belief that they are produced by separate parasites. (4.) There is no authentic instance on record of the transition of one of these diseases into one of the others. (5.) The difference in the appearance of the achorion, tricophyton and microsporon furfur is sufficiently striking to enable the observer in many cases to form a correct diagnosis from the...
Pagina 402 - Rub some of the ointment firmly into the skin of the whole body (except the head) for twenty minutes. Let the ointment remain on the body all night. " Repeat these processes every night for three nights, and then return to the dispensary. " Besides, put all your washing clothes into boiling water, and iron all your other clothes thoroughly with a hot iron.
Pagina 72 - ... the first year of extra-uterine life, and if the sebum is allowed to collect there and gather dirt and dust from without, we may have finally crusts several lines in thickness, and the whole hairy scalp may be enveloped in a thick layer of sebum. When the crusts remain for a long time, the seborrhoea is generally complicated with eczema, for the collected mass of sebum decomposes, macerates, and irritates the skin, and produces redness and moisture on it. The same disease appears also as thick...
Pagina 112 - ... period of variola. It has not the character of variolous eruption. Children take it almost exclusively. I do not say that adults never take it. I have seen a few adult females attacked by it, but it is a rare occurrence. This is not like variola. But far and above all, it is taken indiscriminately by those who have and those who have not been vaccinated. Its course is not in the slightest degree altered by previously undergoing vaccination. It is now nearly always taken after vaccination. Whether...
Pagina 450 - Tricophyton, and Microsporon furfur, the same parasitic disease has been produced as that from which the parasite was taken. (2.) Of the innumerable cases occurring in the human subject illustrative of the contagious nature of favus, tinea tonsurans, and pityriasis versicolor, which have been recorded, there is no authentic case in which one of these diseases gave rise to one of the others. (3.) The difference in the appearance of favus, tinea tonsurans, and pityriasis versicolor, when fully developed,...
Pagina 441 - ... inflammatory phenomena may be so severe as to obscure the vision of the parasite, this is especially noticed by Kaposi.1 This writer also gives, as far as I know, the only representation of the parasite growing in the deeper layers of the epidermis, even among the nucleated cells of the rete. Neumann says,2 " In an earlier stage of the disease, the fungus is almost always demonstrable ; in inveterate cases it is absent as a rule.

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