Identifier: britishjournalof29brit (find matches)
Title: The British journal of dermatology
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: British Association of Dermatology
Subjects: Dermatology Syphilis
Publisher: London H.K. Lewis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 1.—Dr. J. H. Stowers ease of cougeuital icbtliyosis. source of infection. There appeared to be no definite history ofinfection from animals, although theie was a suspected cat iu thehouse, which was examined and found to be healthy. An interestingpoint concerned the duration of the disease, some authorities main-taining that these were really undiagnosed cases which had persisted 280 ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE. from cliildliood. There was evidence that this was not so here,because the patient consulted Dr. Adamson five or six yenrs ago forloss of hair, and his diagnosis was seborrhoea of the scalp. Thequestion arose as to what the treatment should be. She had askedfor X-ray treatment, but the case seemed to be improving a greatdeal under the present treatment with ointment, and his experience,in the few cases he had seen in adults, was that the condition clearedup in theni more quickly than in children. Another inqDortant point
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Fig. 2.—Dr. J. H. Stowers case of congenital iclithyosis. was whether there was more risk in X-raying the scalp of a patientof this age than that of a child. He had applied the ra3s to a certainnumber of cases of Alopecia areata in adults and the hair had returnedsatisfactoiily, at any rate, on tlie places not aifected by tlie alopecia. Dr. J. H. Stowbks showed photographs of a aevcre case of congenitalichthyosis. The pntient (male), aged 51 years, ))resented an unusualtessellated appearance upon the limbs, witli exception;! 11 \ largeelevated plates of thickened epidermis like crijcodile hide (Ichthyosissauroderina) (Figs. 1, 2). KOYAf; SOCIETY OF M KDICINM. 281 Df. George Pernet showed a case of multiple Mori>heo-scler<)derm(a.The patient was a giv\, aged 11 yeais, and the changes in the skinwere noticed six weeks ago. Now, over the lumbar region and thescapula, there were faintly violaceous areas with here and there ovalpatches of slightly ivory-white sclerosed glistening s

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