A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan : exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment / by Thomas Bateman.

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1819
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    culiarities of form, magnitude, colour, and structure, and are seen on almost every part of the surface of the body in different instances. Some of them are merely superficial, or stain-like Spots, and appear to consist of a partial thickening of the rete mucosum, sometimes of a yellow or yellowish brown, sometimes of a blue- ish, livid, or nearly black colour. To these the term Spilus* has been more particularly appropriated. Others again exhibit various degrees of thickening, ele- vation, and altered structure of the skin itself']', and consist of clusters of enlarged and contorted veins, freely anastomosing, and forming little sacs of blood. These are sometimes spread more or less extensively over the surface, occasionally covering even the whole of an extremity, or one half of the trunk of the body; and sometimes they are elevated into prominences of various form and magnitude. Occasionally these marks are nearly of the usual colour of the skin; but most commonly they are of a purplish red colour, of vary- ing degrees of intensity, such as the presence of a con- siderable collection of blood-vessels, situated near the surface, and covered with a thin cuticle, naturally occasions. * HmXo;, macula. This discoloration seems to be included by Sau- vages under his first species, Nevus sigillum, and by Plenck, under N. lenticular is, spec. i. of his Arrangement. See Sauvages, Nos. Meth. class. 1. gen. 4.; Plenck, Doctrina de Morb. Cutan. p. 37. f Sauvages comprehends all these excrescences under Nevus ma- te runs, spec. 2; and Plenck under his four remaining species, is. fam- ine us jtubcrculosus, cavernosas, and malignus.