This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...do they exist alone; generally the typical vesico-pustules will be found in their neighborhood or elsewhere on the body. It is the bullous form that is liable to be mistaken for pemphigus, and has been called contagious pemph iyus. Impetigo contagiosa is located principally upon the face, most often on the chin, and on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...do they exist alone; generally the typical vesico-pustules will be found in their neighborhood or elsewhere on the body. It is the bullous form that is liable to be mistaken for pemphigus, and has been called contagious pemph iyus. Impetigo contagiosa is located principally upon the face, most often on the chin, and on the hands; it may also occur upon the scalp, legs, and trunk, especially in infants. According to my experience, the bullous form is most often seen upon the trunk. The lesions of both varieties are discrete; exceptionally two or more may run together. They are superficial, and rarely very numerous. The bullous lesions are generally widely separated from one another. The disease does not run any definite course, and may last weeks or months; a slight amount of itching is sometimes present. Etiology. It is, as its name indicates, very contagious, and often occurs in epidemics. When one case is met with in dispensary service, several more may be expected in children of the same family or neighborhood. It is readily inoculable both on the subject of the disease and on others. Not infrequently we see a mother or other attendant of a child with the characteristic lesions of impetigo contagiosa upon the arms, derived from carrying the child suffering with the same disorder. The contagious element is a micro-organism. We know that all pus is under certain circumstances inoculable, and hence it has been maintained that there is no such disease, properly speaking, as contagious impetigo. But when we succeed in inoculating from an ordinary pustule, we produce an ordinary pustule, not the characteristic vesico-pustulc of impetigo contagiosa. It has been stated by some authorities that the disease is due to an inflammation set up by lice on the head of t...
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