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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outh a pencil or other object which has been in themouth of one affected with early syphilis. In the first illustration the initial sclerosis is situated upon theskin above the vermillion border of the upper lip, and is covered bya thick crust. A swollen submaxillary gland, which is usually presentin cases of labial chancre, had been treated by the application of someirritating ointment, causing a patch of dermatitis. The second illustration presents a typical sclerosis occurring uponthe lower lip. Such a lesion is unmistakable. Not infrequently,however, an irritated herpes or slight abrasion may become induratedand lead to more or less confusion in diagnosis. In the third illustration is seen a palpebral lesion, which is oneof the rare forms of extra-genital chancre. A digital chancre, as seen upon the thumb in the fourth illus-tration, is liable to be acquired by any physician, dentist, or nurse inthe examination of a patient suffering from recent syphilitic infection. PLATE LXXVII.
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. 11. l PLATE LXXVIII.SYPHILODERMA ERYTHEMATOSUM SYPHILODERMA ERYTHEMATOSUM The erythematous syphilide when appearing as the first cuta-neous symptom of the constitutional disease presents numerous small,rounded, pinkish macules scattered over the surface of the skin, andshowing no tendency to occur in groups or circles. The relapsingerythematous eruption, which is comparatively rare and occurs later inthe course of the disease, presents, on the other hand, fewer butlarger erythematous patches, and sometimes an eruption in annularform. The early erythematous syphilide is rarely observed to be asgeneral and as distinct as in the case which forms the subject of theaccompanying illustration. It is frequently seen only upon the abdo-men and flexor aspect of the forearms, and often appears so faint asto resemble the mottling of the skin seen upon certain patients witha poor circulation when the body is stripped and exposed to a coolatmosphere. In most cases the macules do not exist alone b

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