Psorospermosis follicularis cutis : a clinical lecture, delivered at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, October 8, 1890 / by L. Duncan Bulkley.

  • Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, 1845-1928.
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1890
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Credit: Psorospermosis follicularis cutis : a clinical lecture, delivered at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, October 8, 1890 / by L. Duncan Bulkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A Clinical Lecture, delivered at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, October 8, i8qo. By L. DUNCAN BULKLEY, A.M., M.D., PROFESSOR OF DERMATOLOGY. Gentlemen: The patient whom I present to you exhibits very clearly the characters of a somewhat rare disease which has recently attracted considerable atten- tion, and the nature of which has given rise to no little study and discussion. I trust, however, that before I have finished you will recognize that the disea.se has more than a scientific interest; that our remarks of to- day will stimulate you to a further study of the general subject involved; and that some practical good may result therefrom. The clinical history of the patient before us is as follows: Mr. M. L., a German, aged forty-nine years, enjoyed good health up the time of his entering the U. S. army, in 1862, in which he served for three years. About a year after entering the service, without any apparent cause, except an immersion in a river, after which he was sick for some time, small, dark lesions appeared upon the forehead and over the sternum, similar to those now pre- sent ; and from that time, twenty-six years ago, he has never been free from the eruption, which has gradually increased in extent. These lesions began as small, red- dish-brown points, or papules, which gradually enlarged