A descriptive catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the London Hospital.

  • London Hospital Medical College. Pathological Museum.
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the Pathological Museum of the London Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    60 1 Eczema rub rum. 63. 2. A right leg presenting from the ankle upwards large dry flakes of thickened epidermis in process of exfoliation ; the skin beneath and between is highly congested and of a bright red colour. H. v. 5. 61. 1. The palmar and dorsal surface of a left hand, exhibiting the epi- dermis soddened, thickened, and in many places cracked, the subjacent inflamed corium being exposed. H. iv. 5. Eczema impetiginosum. 2. Surrounding the nipple for a radius of two inches the skin is hyperaemic, and is covered at the periphery with thin yellowish exudation, and nearer the nipple with dirty yellow scabs composed of epidermic scales and dried purulent secretion. The edge of the hypersemic area is ill-defined, it gradually shades oft' into the surrounding healthy skin. II. iv. 5. 65. The portrait of the head and neck of a woman, showing impetiginous eczema or contagious porrigo of the forehead and face. The eruption is characterized by thick purulent crusts which completely cover the inflamed portion of the skin. It is contagious, easily curable by local remedies, of local origin, and most often seen in children and in the scalp. There is so little inflammation in connexion with the purulent crusts that the case may be regarded as a good example of impetigo. N. S. 15. 66. The face of a youth showing pustular eczema of the forehead, eye- brows, eyelids, cheeks, lips, chin, and ear-lobules. II. iv. 2. 67. The right side of the face of a woman with pustular eczema of the pinna and of the adjoining skin and seal]). The disease affects the skin from below the ear to the top of the forehead, and extends fonvards to the outer canthus of the eye; the greenish, heaped-up scabs are typical. There are similar scabs in the scalp. PI, iv. 3. 68. The wrinkled face of an old man, showing numerous eczematous vesicles and pustules on the root, side, and tip of the nose, on the check, upper and lower lips, and chin. II. iv. 4. 69. The portrait shows the back of the hand, forearm, and lower part of the arm. The skin is everywhere hypenemic and covered by numerous vesicles. Over the upper part of the forearm is an irregular
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