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.
57/446 page 47
![state of the digestive organs. Erythema appeared in Paris in 1829, in an épidémie form. Diagnods. No other class of cutaneous affections is cbaracter- ized by tbat particular redness, disappearing nnder pressure, tvhich is diagnostic of tbe exanthematous diseases. Tbis of itself is suffi- cient to distinguish tbem from purpura and eccbymosis. In tbe negro the colour of tbe inflamed skin, instead of being red, is even darker tban natural. Several papular, vesicular, and bullous érup- tions may be complicated with tbe exantbemata. It was in con- séquence of tbe frequenev of these complications tbat Willan placed erysipelas amongst tbe bulbe. Tbe prognosis and treatment of the exantbematous diseases should be regulated according to the extent of tbe inflammation, tbe âge, and constitution of tbe patient ; and above ail, according to the severity of tbe accompany- ing lésion. À mild and simple plan of treatment will in many cases be sufiieient. In some instances, hotvever, tbe disease must be attacked with more energetic measures. It is impossible, as may easily be imagined, to lay down any précisé line of treatment for a class of diseases tvhich appear under sucb various forms and degrees of intensity. Tbe period of convalescence is generally long, during wbicb, several diseases, especially hooping cougb, anasarca, and chronic diarrhœa, may supervene. Hence it is important to attend to tbe general bealtb for some time after tbe éruption bas disappeared.* ERYTHEMA. Syn.—Inflammatory Blush; Tootb Rasb; Gum ; Intertrigo; Maculœ Volaticœ : Dartre erythemoide. Erythema (’EpvOtgxa) is a non-contagious, exantbematous affec- tion characterized by slight superficial red patebes, irregularly circumscribed, and of variable form and extent. Altbougb it may C* Several wnters od cutaneous pathology hold tbat the Exantbemata should not be included in a work treating specially of diseases of the sldn, and hâve accordingly omitted lhem. I thiuk the authors hâve exercised a Sound dis- crétion in retaining this group of affections in their Manual ; for if these were rejected, it would be diilicult to show why other symptomatic diseases of the skin were retained, which might also be objected to on similar grounds. Vide Dr. George Gregory's Treatise on the Eruptive Fevers.—B.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28049573_0057.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
