This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... dency to gangrene. In cachectic, scrawny female with rough skin. Silicea.--Ecthymatous pustules all over the body, sensitive to contact. Pustules on the back part ot the head. Burning and soreness after scratching. Sulphur.--Dry, thick yellow scabs over the wholb, body. Itching pustules on the scalp, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... dency to gangrene. In cachectic, scrawny female with rough skin. Silicea.--Ecthymatous pustules all over the body, sensitive to contact. Pustules on the back part ot the head. Burning and soreness after scratching. Sulphur.--Dry, thick yellow scabs over the wholb, body. Itching pustules on the scalp, painful to the touch. Tartar Emet.--Large, round, full burning pustuleswith red areolae, forming in two days, and leaving deep scars. Thuja.--Suppurating pustules upon the lower extremities. Cistus and Nux juglans may at times be indicated!. ECZEMA. Definition.--Eczema is an acute or' chronic, noncontagious inflammation of the skin, characterized by either an erythematous, papular, vesicular or pustular eruption, or a combination of these, accompanied with burning, itching and more or less infiltration, terminating either in discharge with the formation of crusts, or in desquamation. Synonyms.--Salt rheum. Moist tetter. Milk crust.. Symptomatology.--Eczema may be either acute or chronic. It may commence abruptly or gradually, and may run its course in a few weeks or last for months or years. The acute form is frequently though not always ushered in by more or less febrile disturbance, lassitude and loss of appetite, which are soon followed ht an eruption of one or more reddish patches of variable size, accompanied by heat and burning. In a day or two or at times even in a few hours, little pin points are seen on the reddened surface, and vesicles make their appearance, attended with more or less itching. The vesicles are small and closely aggregated. They are made up mostly of scrum, containing a few leucocytes and a little fibrin, and rarely last longer than twenty-four or forty-eight hours. The itdiing is now the most prominent...
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