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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atching tends to destroy this typical appearance, and hencethe diagnosis in doubtful cases must be based upon the course ofthe disease rather than upon the appearance of the skin. The patient, though often of robust physique. usuall\- presentsa marked neurotic appearance and plainly shows the effect of loss ofsleep from constant irritation of the skin. The eruption may belimited to the head, trunk or extremities, or. in a severe case, involvethe greater portion of the body. The individual lesions run a shortcourse, but fresh crops make the disease an essentially chronic one.The eruption often improves spontaneously and may entirely dis-appear, but repeated relapses are a notable feature of its course. The plate shows the grouping of the lesions and their vesicularcharacter quite plainly upon the neck. The patient was in fair generalhealth, but for eight years had suffered from frequent attacks, lastinga few days or a few weeks, with intervals ranging from one to sixmonths. PLATE XVII.
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Lopyrigln, iy<«., by G. H. Fo DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS. PLATE XVIII.DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS The first illustration shows the grouping of the lesions ofdermatitis herpetiformis in a most characteristic form. These areusually vesicular at the outset, hut rarely as well developed as thegrouped vesicles of zoster and never so closely aggregated. Owingto the intense pruritus which generally accompanies the eruption,the vesicles are quickly destroyed by scratching, and only groupsof excoriated papules or minute abrasions are to be seen. The disease usually occurs in adult life, but may occasionallybe met with in young children. The patient sho\w in the illustra-tion was a girl of thirteen. She was treated at the Skin and CancerHospital and apparently cured, but in all probability has sincesuffered from the recurrent attacks which are always to be expected. The second illustration shows a well-marked case of the bullousform of the disease. The lesions in this ca

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