Erythema elevatum diutinum / by H. Radcliffe Crocker and Campbell Williams.
- Henry Radcliffe Crocker
- Date:
- [1894]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Erythema elevatum diutinum / by H. Radcliffe Crocker and Campbell Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Reprinted from the British Journal of Dermatology, Nos. 63 <£ 64, Vol. £.] ERYTHEMA ELEYATUM DIUTINUM. By H. RADCLIFFE CROCKER, M.D., F.R.C.P., AND CAMPBELL WILLIAMS, F.R.C.S. The advantage of a pictorial record of rare cases in producing the recognition of similar instances when they are met with by other observers is universally acknowledged. It is in the hope, therefore, of eliciting fresh facts that the following case is described and figured, and comparison made between it and other recorded cases more or less resembling it. Amy H •, fet. 6 years, was brought first to the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children in October, 1893, and on the 21st was sent on from there for diagnosis, to University College Hospital. There was a very strong history of gout and rheumatism on the mother’s side :— the mother’s grandmother suffered badly from rheumatism ; the mother’s father and brother had gout badly, and her sister had rheu- matism. The father’s family history was unknown, but he himself was in good health. The patient’s general health had always been quite good, and she had never had any serious illness except measles in infancy. The disease of the skin began simultaneously on both knees five months before she came under notice; next, it developed on the buttocks, elbows, and finally on the hands, which have been affected for two months. Positions.—The lesions are situated on the left hand :—on the first](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2238621x_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
