Angioma pigmentosum et atrophicum, Taylor : melanosis lenticularis progressiva, Pick, liodermia cum melanosi et telangiectasia, Neisser, xeroderma pigmentosum, Kaposi, dermatosis kaposi, Vidal / by James C. White.

  • James Clarke White
Date:
1885
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Credit: Angioma pigmentosum et atrophicum, Taylor : melanosis lenticularis progressiva, Pick, liodermia cum melanosi et telangiectasia, Neisser, xeroderma pigmentosum, Kaposi, dermatosis kaposi, Vidal / by James C. White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from the Journal of Cutankous ano Vknkreal Diseases, Vol. III., December, 1885.] ANGIOMA PIGMENTOSUM ET ATROPHICUM, TAYLOR. MELANOSIS LENTICULARIS PROGRESSIVA, PICK. LIODERMIA CUM MELANOSI ET TELANGIECTASIA, NEISSER. XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM, KAPOSI. DERMATOSIS KAPOSI, VIDAL.^ BY JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., Professor of Dermatology in Harvard University, IT is my purpose to present a brief account of two cases of this disease which have lately come under my observation. This peculiar affec- tion, characterized by so many and so striking pathological pro- cesses, has been so ably studied of late by such competent observers as Neisser, Vidal, and Pick, and its appearances so well pictured by the latter two, that little remains for me but to add this report of additional cases to the lists published by them. The cases occur in a family of Russian Polish Jews. Tlie parents have lived in Russia, England, New York, and Boston. The mother is a healthy-looking woman, stout, of fair complexion, dark-brown hair and eyes. She says that she has always been well. The father, by the wife’s report, is a blond with light hair and eyes. No such disease has occurred previously in either family to their knowledge. The boy Louis came to the Massachusetts General Hospital Out- patient Department, July 1885. He was asked if there were'other cases in the family, and on the statement that a little brother had the ’ Read at meeting of Amer. Derm. Association, Aug. 26, 1885.