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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![DISEASES OF THE SEIN exauthemata. Exanthematous Eruptions. The word ’E'(civ9i]pa (from EZavdiuj, cfflorcsco, erumpo) was em- ployée! by Hippocrates, and the Grreek pbysicians, to designate ail kinds of éruptions witkout distinction, and many later authors hâve made use of the terni exantbema in a no less vague and indefinite manner. However, several nosologists, as for example, Sauvages, Cullen, Lorry, and Frank, bave, witb tbe view of giving it a more précisé signification, confined tbe word exantbemata to certain forms of inflammation of tbe skin, accompanied by fever, and presenting distinct periods of invasion and declension. We sball use tbe term in tbe sense in wbicb it was employed by Willan, and subsecpiently by Biett, to tbe following effect :— Tbe exanthematous diseases are inflammations of tbe skin, cha- racterized by constitutional disturbance, and a diflused redness wbicb disappears for a moment under pressure of tbe finger. Erytbema, erysipelas, roseola, measles, scarlatina, and urticaria, belong to tliis class. Tbe exantbemata may spread over tbe wbole of tbe cutaneous surface, but in general some are confined to cer- tain limita, while others are diflused, and cover a great part of the body. Tbe spécial seat of tbese diseases appears to be tbe super - ficial layers of the cutis vera, and especially tbe vascular layer, In some severe cases, however, tbe inflammation not only extends to tbe different layers of tbe skin, but also to tbe subeutaneous cellu-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28049573_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
