Experimental observations on the pathology of lupus : with notes on three cases of lupus or tuberculosis of the skin of the hand / by Frederic S. Eve.
- Eve, Frederick Samuel, Sir, 1853-1916.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Experimental observations on the pathology of lupus : with notes on three cases of lupus or tuberculosis of the skin of the hand / by Frederic S. Eve. 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 ‘ Transactions of the Pathological Society of London,’ 1888. Experimental observations on the pathology of lupus, .with, notes on three cases of lupus or tuberculosis of the skin of the hand. By Frederic S. Eve. [With Plate XVIII, figs. 3 and 4.] mHE pathology of lupus has in recent years attracted much JL attention, and the advances made are familiar to most of us. The opinions of Continental authorities on the subject were fully exposed in the discussion which took place at the International Medical Congress in Copenhagen in 1884, when M. Leloir commu- nicated a paper on the subject, in which he contended that lupus was a local form of tuberculosis of the skin. This proposition was combated by Kaposi and others. More recently Schwimmer, in a paper read before the German Congress of Surgeons, has followed the same line of argument as Kaposi. The latest contribution to the subject, by our greatest authority, Mr. Hutchinson (Harveian Lectures, 1887), is little more favorable to the tubercular theory of lupus. Mr. Hutchinson apparently considers the disease as a non-specific inflammation having locally infective characters. He says in effect that whilst some of the subjects of the disease have the strumous or tubercular constitution, a large number enjoy otherwise sound health. Most of the arguments adduced on either side may be briefly stated as follows: The view that lupus is a local tuberculosis of the skin is sup-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22379009_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
