Diseases of the skin : their description, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Radcliffe Crocker.

  • Crocker, H. Radcliffe (Henry Radcliffe), 1845-1909.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Diseases of the skin : their description, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment / by H. Radcliffe Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at least as much to do with it as the albuminuria. Thibierge,* in his paper on the subject, could not make much more out of it and quotes forty-four cases of M. Augagneur, who, in forty-three cases where albuminuria and cutaneous disease were associated, found such diseases as impetigo, scabies, lymphangitis, and ecthyma in thirty-six, and in the other seven were boils, ulcers, gan-rene, and eczema, and few would assign any etiological con- nection with at least the first three dozen. It is otherwise with diabetes. Kaposi,f in a paper on this subject, found xerosis, pruritus, urticaria, acne cachecticorum, roseola and erythema, eczema, especially of the genitalia, balanitis and vulvitis, boils and carbuncles, gangrene, and to these must be added the rare xanthoma diabeticorum. On the other hand, skin diseases may lead to dis- ease of the kidneys ; thus chronic universal dermatitis in any form is liable to lead to albuminuria just before the fatal termination ; and Augagneur cites many cases confirming the opinion that sup- purative dermatitis may induce nephritis. Temporary glycosuria is sometimes seen in association with eczema, but here they probably only own a common cause. Diseases of the Respiratory System. — Although these can scarcely be considered causes of skin disease, spasmodic asthma is sufficiently often associated with cutaneous disease to show that there is a relation between them, but probably only that of common origin. Bulkley % gives a very complete resume of our knowledge of this subject. Urticaria, eczema, and ichthyosis are the diseases associated with true spasmodic asthma in my^ ex- perience. Gaskoin also connects psoriasis with it; but this is not in accordance with either Bulkley's or my own experience. Bulkley also, in nine hundred and forty-eight cases of acne found seven with asthma. Nervous System,—The etiological connection of the nervous system with cutaneous disease has been much discussed of late years, especially as to what are, and what are not, tro- phoneuroses. In the present state of our knowledge this is largely academic, except where anatomical changes in the * Des Relations des Dermatoses avec les Affections des Reins et l'Albumi- nurie G. Thibierge, Annates de Derm, et Syph., vol. vi. (1885), pp. 424, 5™- t Wiener Mcdecinischc Presse, No. 23, December 1883. Abs. in Annates de Derm, et Syph., vol. v. (1884), p. 28. X Brit. Med. Jour., November 21st, 1885.