A practical treatise upon eczema : including its lichenous, impetiginous and pruriginous varieties / by T. M'Call Anderson.

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
Date:
1863
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    CHAPTER II. The elementary lesions encountered in cases of eczema, may now be studied at greater length. These vary much, as I previously observed; hence I have ranked them second in importance to the infiltration, exudation, itching, and formation of crusts—four symptoms which are almost always present to a certain extent in a fully- developed eczema, or in some part of its course. By so] doing, the observer is prevented from fixing his attention too much upon the former, and being thus led away from the diagnosis of the case. The elementary lesion is of great importance, however. This may be— 1. An erythematous state of skin. 2. A vesicle. 3. A pustule. 4. A papule. 5. A fissure; or a mixture of several or all of these lesions. 1. The Elementary Lesion, an Erythematous State of Skin.—In this case the disease commences as a simple erythema, which is shortly accompanied by exfoliation of the epidermis; but there is as yet no infil- tration of the skin, neither is there any exudation on its surface. The diseased process not being arrested at this stage, infiltration of the affected part gradually