Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess.
- Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hâve been used by Hippocrates to indicate pustular éruptions, and tbose tbat were elevated above tbe surface of the skin. Hence Fernel, Paré, Vidus Vidius, and some otber writers, prétend that Hip- pocrates applied this term to variola, and restricted tbe t%av9l]p.aTa to scarlatina and measles. We are of a different opinion ; non eau we believe tbat tbe founder of medicine ever confounded so remark - able a disease as small-pox with otber cutaneous disorders. Hip- pocrates likewise speaks of pustules under tbe tenus <p\vKTcuvcu, vdwpa and 7roptyoL ; but tbe Word pustule (pustula) is used by Gelsus to indicate, not only every kind of élévation containing a fluid, but even tbose “ quæ ex urticâ vel ex sudore naseuntur.” Under the term iK&pa, (ticÇùv, to burst forth, ) Ætius speaks of certain éruptions, attended by beat and pain, which cover nearly thewholeof tbebody (Tetrab. iv. Serm. 1, c. 128), “eas k^épara, ab ebulliente fervore, Græci vulgo appellant.” Paidus Æginetus gives tbe same name, and likewise tbe appellation irtpi^kapara. to tbe éruption of dry pustules (titra, saniem) i. e., to papulæ. It is not easy to identify tbe Répara with any of tbe diseases described by Gelsus ; be probably confounds tbem with the papulæ and pus- tulæ. Hippocrates applies tbe terms à\<p6ç, ptXaç and Xevici) to ail cutaneous affections cbaracterized by a change of colour and diminution of sensibility in the skin, witb loss of hair, which be- cornes white. Tlie two first differed only in colour ; XtvKij was an extremel}r severe disease, which gradually destroyed tbe skin and muscles and penetrated to the bones ; it seems to hâve been the same malady as tbe tsaraath of the Jews. Tbe following fragment of Archigenes bauded down to us by Ætius, indicates the points of connexion which the Greek writers laid down between the XnKV of Hippocrates and tbe scaly diseases comprebended by tbem under the generic term Xtirpaï. “ Dlffert lePra a leuce et alPho. vitiliginis speciebus, in eo quod lepra aspera sxt ad contactum, et pruritum locorum inducat; cutis emm sola est quæ affecta est, et excoriatâ ente, caro subjecta sana repentur. In leuce vera subjecta cuti caro tota per profundum transmutata est ad albidiorem colorem et superficies affecti loci lævissima est, et confricta citius rubescit, præsertim in iis qui facile curantur. At vero alpbos in superficie kæret et veluti squamma](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28049573_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
