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
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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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    cuti affixus est. Cceterum a scabie differt lepra, quoi in scabie qui- dem furfuracea quœdam cuti inliærentia apparent, in lepra vero quædam veluti magnorum piscium squammæ. Differt vero lepra ab impetigine feroci, eo quod impétigo orbiculatim semper proserpat, lepra vero non ita, nec eodem modo.” (Tetrab. iv. Serm. 1, cap. 134.) Nevertheless Paulus Æginetus, who describes \kirpa and ÿupiamç to'mther, points out the circulai form of Xfttpet as a distinct character of tbat affection. “ Aéirpu per profunditatem corporum cutem depascitur orbiculatiore modo, et squammas piscium squam- mis similes dimittit : ipûpa autem magis in superficie bæret et varie figurata est, &c.” (Paulus Æginetus, lib. iv. cap. 1, De Lepra et Psora.) Tlie more immédiate successors of Hippocrates addedlittle to our knowledge of cutaneous diseases ; indeed, generally speaking, tlieir commentaries were ratber calculated to confuse tban throw ligbt upon tbe subject. From Celsus, wko lived during the reign of the emperor Ti- berius, we are enabled to obtain some idea of the knowledge which the Romans possessed witk respect to diseases of the skin- In is writings, in addition to the Greek terms already noticed we find several new ones, such as impétigo, papulœ, pvstulœ, scabics, por- riao, sycosis, vitiligo, &e. „ The tenu impétigo (from impetus) was mtroduced by Plmy, who always employs it in the plural number, {impetigines,) to sigmij éruptions which are chiefly seated in the face. Celsus dmdes im- pétigo into foui- species; the first is pustular, and terminâtes in ulcérations; the second, which he dénommâtes m papular, and attended with vivid injection of the skin; the tlnrd is black, andmuch more severe than the two precedmg forms ; the lourth species is incurable, and seems to correspond with the psoncuns inveterata of our modem classifications. The term papulœ (from papida, a little bud) was first employed hy Cœlius Aurehanus (Tarb. 21), wlio says, while spealung of rubefacients, “admovenda ilia emplastra qme corpus hare.” Virgil likewise employs the same word ardentes papulas, (Geor lib. 3.) Celsus describes two species of papulæ. “Altéra est in qua per minimas pustulas cutis exasperatur c
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