On neurotic cutaneous diseases, including erythema / by Henry Samuel Purdon.
- Date:
- 1869
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On neurotic cutaneous diseases, including erythema / by Henry Samuel Purdon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![of the nervous disorders, and not its causes. I do not contend, he says, for the in- variable occurrence of chlorosis without de- pravation of the blood. I insist, however, upon the point, that chlorosis is a disease of the nervous system, and that when morbid changes take place in the blood during its continuance, they are always secondary, and directly the consequences of the nervous derangement,— and that, therefore, they are nothing more than accompaniments of the chlorotic con- dition; also, that chlorosis frequently runs its course without any of the symptoms of ]3atho- logical changes in the blood being manifested. In the enunciation of this opinion, I claim nothing on the score of originality. * * * I merely wish to present the view more con- nectedly and prominently than has yet been done.'' All hysterical affections have the peculiarity of local tenderness about the part suspected to be the actual seat of the disease, and which extends over a considerable surface; and although Dermatalgia is limited to one particu- lar spot, still, in hysterical females, the pain, and increased sensibility to the touch, may be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21951858_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
