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Credit: Notes on the treatment of skin diseases / by Robert Liveing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![-tth. The'tenn Eczema squamosum is generally used to denote a dry scaly form of the disease, sometimes bear- ing a close resemblance to Psoriasis in appearance, but differing from it in its history and nature ; the skin be- neath the scaly surface is more or less red. 5th. Eczema rimosum is a dry variety of Eczema, in which the cuticle becomes much thickened, hardened, and fissured. It is most often met with on the palms of the hand and soles of the feet. 6th. Eczema marginatum is a form which spreads cen- trifugally in patches, which have a well-defined ra,ised border, and are met with on the inside of the thighs, perinaeum, and gluteal region. It is a form of eruption which is very inveterate, and difficult to cure. This is due partly to the fact that the skin of the parts affected is constantly exposed to friction either from the clothes or neighbouring skin. It is, moreover, especially met with in men]who ride much, but it is very rare in women. Vegetable parasites are constantly found in recent Ec- zema marginatimi, and it is, therefore, regarded by some as essentially a parasitic disease. Acute Eczema is characterised by redness and oedema- tous swelling or infiltration of the skin with other symp- toms of inflammatory action; but it never produces the smooth, tense, shining surface seen in Erysipelas, and the constitutional symptoms are, moreover, less severe. The redness and swelling are followed by the eruption of nu- merous minute vesicles containing a clear watery serous fluid, which has the property of stiffening linen as it dries. In the treatment of Acute Eczema, abstinence from pickles, spices, coffee, malt liquors, wine and spirits, should be enjoined, and sulphate of magnesia in purga- tive doses prescribed, or the Haustus effervescens (13), or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21944209_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
