The Principles and practice of dermatology

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D. Appleton & Company, 1924 - Skin - 1257 pages
 

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Page iii - Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis. By WILLIAM ALLEN PUSEY, AM, MD, Professor of Dermatology in the University of Illinois; and EUGENE W. CALDWELL, BS, Director of the Edward N. Gibbs X-Ray Memorial Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.
Page 237 - The eruption just described is of the greatest value at the very onset of the disease, the invasion,. As the skin eruption begins to appear and spreads, the eruption on the mucous membrane becomes diffuse and the characters of a discrete eruption disappear and lose themselves in an intense general redness. When the skin eruption is at the efflorescence, the eruption on the buccal mucous membrane has lost the character of a discrete spotting and has become a diffuse red background, with innumerable...
Page xxxvii - American Text-Book of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Syphilis, and Diseases of the Skin. Edited by L. BOLTON BANGS, MD, and WA HARDAWAY, MD Octavo, 1229 pages, 300 engravings, 20 colored plates.
Page 310 - ... differentiate them only by the history, and not by their appearance. Pusey in his textbook boldly asserts the absurdity of attempting any such distinction, and because of the splendid force of his expression and his compelling logic, the entire passage in question is worth transcribing from his work: Hebra first cleared the subject of eczema of some of its vagueness, and also opened the discussion as to its proper definition, by declaring that eczema is dermatitis, such as can be excited in any...
Page 675 - It is an almost overwhelming fact . . . that if every illicit or dangerous intercourse were followed by a reliable prophylactic, in a few years we should witness the passing of the scourge as complete as the eradication of yellow fever, bubonic plague and malaria...
Page 643 - The great source of the propagation of syphilis is prostitution, either open or clandestine. The women who accept promiscuous intercourse do not go far before they are exposed to syphilis; and it follows, of course, that the prevalence of syphilis among promiscuous prostitutes is enormous. As a matter of fact, it is practically universal.
Page 311 - ... dermatitis of external origin and dermatitis of other origin which are indistinguishable, and that he would confine the conception of eczema to the dermatitis of other origin. Morris goes on: "It is evident, therefore, that there is something more in eczema than inflammation of the skin due to a local and transient cause. There is an unknown quantity beyond this, a pathological x which may be either some invisible source of irritation or some constitutional peculiarity or both of these factors....
Page 649 - Spirochxta pallida. Fibrin spirals have been mistaken for syphilitic spirochetes by inexperienced observers. In general it may be said that while the recognition of the organism of syphilis is not an affair for the tyro, a moderate amount of experience on the part of the examiner, coupled with the presence of numerous organisms of the above-described type in a given preparation made under favorable conditions, is sufficient for a diagnosis of syphilis a,nd the institution of appropriate treatment....
Page 237 - It consists of small, irregular spots, of a bright red color. In the centre of each spot, there is noted, in strong daylight, a minute bluishwhite speck. These red spots, with accompanying specks of a bluish-white color, are absolutely pathognomonic of beginning measles, and when seen can be relied upon as the forerunner of the skin eruption.
Page 687 - ... alternately into each buttock. The needle with the syringe empty should be introduced to its full length, and the syringe then detached and filled with the necessary dose. This introduction of any empty needle is a safeguard against making an injection into a vein. If the dry needle should be in a vein, on detaching the syringe, blood would well up through it; if the needle remains free from blood, as is nearly always the case, there is reasonable security against introduction into a vein. In...

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