A case of dermatitis herpetiformis (bullosa) / by Louis A. Duhring.

  • Louis Adolphus Duhring
Date:
1884
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Credit: A case of dermatitis herpetiformis (bullosa) / by Louis A. Duhring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rapidity. I can not, however, attribute the recovery altogether to the remedies used, knowing well as we do the singularly arbi¬ trary course the disease usually pursues. About three years afterward (December 20,1882) I received a letter from Dr. Kollock (under whose care the patient had since been), stating that he had not seen the man for a year, but that, “ according to last accounts, he had improved markedly in general health as well as locally under a tonic treatment. The eruption has appeared at longer intervals, and is confined to smaller areas. He seemed to derive great relief from the application of a lotion containing corrosive sublimate and alco¬ hol.” Since this date I have heard nothing. The case represents more particularly the bullous variety of the disease, although its multiformity, as in almost all instances, was repeatedly shown. As I have so recently de¬ scribed this remarkable disease in a paper * read before the American Medical Association, comment here is scarcely necessary. It may be stated, however, that the case illus-. trates the vesicular and bullous lesions as they usually occur in the course of the disease, the latter predominating. The resemblance to pemphigus is obvious, but I think it will be seen that the process is different, and that it can not be viewed as a variety of this disease. * Abstracts may be found in the “ N. Y. Med. Jour.,” May 17, 1884, p. 562, and in the “Phila. Med. Times,” May 17, 1884, p. 603.
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