Goulstonian lectures on modern views upon the significance of skin eruptions : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by H.G. Adamson.
- Adamson, H. G. (Horatio George), 1865-1955.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Goulstonian lectures on modern views upon the significance of skin eruptions : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by H.G. Adamson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the manner in which the eruption is brought about and whether it actually depends on nerve influences is still unexplained. Other examples are alopecia following section of a nerve, of which a few instances have been recorded, and hyperidrosis limited to an area corresponding to that of a particular nerve distribution, generally a division of the fifth cranial nerve. Sometimes (as in the example shown —fig. 39) scleroderma occupies the area of the supra- orbital nerve, suggesting a nervous origin. But in the FIG. 39.—Scleroderma in region of supra-orbital nerve. large majority of cases of scleroderma no such distribu- tion can be made out. An interesting suggestion has recently been made by Staff-Surgeon J]. P. H. Greenhalgh, K.N., that the area of distribution of the rash of typhoid fever corresponds to Head’s zone for intestinal disorders, and that the eruption takes this distribution because the typhoid bacilli are apt to stagnate in the vessels here](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3286288x_0098.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
