Identifier: photographicatla01foxguoft (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: Dermatology
Publisher: Philadelphia Lippincott
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f the body. The skin uponthe forehead and cheeks was of a dull red hue and thickened to sucha degree that the natural furrows were greatly exaggerated. The itch-ing of the affefted parts was intense and the eyebrows had beenscratched or rubbed so persistently that only a short stubble-likegrowth of hair remained. A chronic conjunftivitis caused constantlachrymation with thickening of the lids and prevented the completeopening of one eye. The patient was a great eater of meat and sutTered from consti-pation. A change of diet with an alkaline diuretic taken in copiousdraughts of water improved his general condition, while an ointmentcontaining ten per cent, of oil of cade relieved the intolerable pruritus. While erythematous eczema may occur upon various portionsof the body the illustration shows its favorite seat about the eyes. Inthis location it is often an e.xtremely persistent and annoying affec-tion even while the redness and roughness of the skin is scarcelynoticeable. PLATE XIX.
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Copyright, 1900, by G. H. Fo ECZEMA ERYTHEMATOSUM. PLATE XX. ECZEMA PAPULOSUM ECZEMA PAPULOSUM While in most cases of eczema we find a diffused inflamma-tion of the skin, in the papular form of the disease the congestionbegins in and is limited to the follicular plexus. A small red papuleis thereby produced which is very apt to become excoriated by thefinger nails, owing to the intense itching which is a prominent feat-ure of the disease in every form. When the lesions remain discretethe eruption is a dry one and to this condition the older dermatol-ogists applied the term • lichen. But in most ca^es of papulareczema the lesions tend to aggregate in groups and by increase innumber to form diffused patches, which soon present the moistexuding surf^ice, which is the most charaderistic symptom of ecze-matous inflammation. It is for this reason that the old term lichensimplex has become obsolete, and the eruption is now generallyrecognized as a form of eczema. In scabies urticaria and p

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