Identifier: syphilis00coop (find matches)
Title: Syphilis
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Cooper, Alfred, Sir, 1846-1908 Cotterell, Edward, 1857-1898
Subjects: Syphilis Syphilis
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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latter eruption is more furuncular, and more pain-ful ; there is less tendency to crust form.ation, and thesurrounding areola is not copper-coloured. Ecthy-matous ulcers on the leg, co-existing with varicoseveiuvS, are liable to be mistaken for ordinary varicoseulcers. The occurrence of the eruption on the face aswell as on the limbs points to a syphilitic origin. Rupia, or the Rupial Syphilide, is one of themost typical lesions of syphilis; and when the rupialcrusts are present, syphilis may be diagnosed withabsolute certainty (see PI. X., Fig. 3). The general period for its development is towardsthe end of the second or third year or later, and itis generally reckoned as one of the latest secondarymanifestations; but in malignant syphilis it mayappear quite early. When this is the case, the EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. Fig. 1. A portion of the skin of the abdomen, showing smalllichenoid syphilide. Fig. 2. Crusts of ecthymatous syphilide. Fig. 3. Characteristic crusts of rupia. Plate 10.
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