The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes : and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale.

  • Thomas Annandale
Date:
1866
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Credit: The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes : and their surgical treatment / by Thomas Annandale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    abrasion or scratch of the skin, with exposure to similar irritating matters. In some persons the mere contact of the irritating discharges from cer- tain wounds is quite sufficient to cause this, or even a worse form of inflammation. Several fingers may be affected with this inflammation at the same time, or they may be attacked with it in succession. Mr. Todd1 has described, under the term paronychia gangrenosa, an affection of the fingers resembling this form of whitlow, but followed by more serious results, and commencing without any apparent cause. When the areolar tissue is attacked, the symptoms are more severe, and there is more swelling of the finger than when the skin only is implicated. The swelling is situated not only on the flexor surface, which I may here state is the aspect of the fingers usually attacked with whitlow in all its forms, but also on its dorsal and lateral aspects. There is often a good deal of pain and throbbing in the finger, the pain not always being confined to the finger, but passing up the forearm and arm, and in some cases causing swelling and irritation in the glands of the axilla. When suppuration has taken place in these cases, we frequently find that although the lateral and dorsal aspects of the finger are of a bright red 1 Dublin Hospital Be]3orts, vol. ii.