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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    SPECIAL PATHOLOGY. 159. 1 lie portrait shows upon the penis and scrotum of a man, and the back of the neck of a child, numerous small, round, prominent sessile tumours ol translucent appearance, and varying in size from a pin's head to a pea, and presenting in the centre of the larger ones a dark umbilication. ]]. vii. 10. Of the Nails. Onychia maligna. 160. 1. The nail in the left upper corner is a typical example of this disease. The swollen clubbed end of the finger, the dusky congestion of the whole, the discoloured, loose, and recurved nail, and the angry-looking sore beneath it, are most characteristic features of the disease. It rarely affects more than one finger, is produced by slight injury, usually in a delicate, maybe syphilitic child. N. S. 17. Onychitis chronica. 2. The figure to the left shows the four nails of one hand. The nails become opaque and much thickened. Their edges and surface break up and become rugged and discoloured by the dirt which gets into the cracks. If pared the nail-substance is soft and spongy, the matrix is swollen and readily bleeds. This disease affects both hands and feet with accurate symmetry, and is therefore clearly constitu- tional in origin. It usually attacks young adults. N. S. 17. Onychitis syphilitica. 3. The nails of the fingers are seen to be rough and broken, but not much thickened. The nail of one of the toes is drawn, and it shows a similar condition. From an old woman who became the subject of primary and secondary syphilis, and in whom, in connection with a general eruption of psoariasis, the nails inflamed. N. S. 17. Onychitis syphilitica hereditaria. 4. The finger-nails of a child which are discoloured and deformed, being much arched, as if they had been pinched in forceps; and also those of an infant, showing discoloration, irregularity, and transverse furrowing. The nails of both hands and feet were symmetrically affected, and the infant was the subject of a scaly and papular rash, the consequence of inherited syphilis. N. S. 17. 5. The finger-nails of a young woman, the subject of an inherited syphilitic taint. The inflammation commences at the root, and
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