Volume 1
A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South.
- Adolph Wilhelm Otto
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of human & comparative pathological anatomy / By Adolph Wilhelm Otto. Translated from the German with additional notes and references, by John F. South. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![and X.—[Chamseru in Hist. de la Soc. Roy. de Méd. Vol. IV. p. 264, mentions the case of a child born with a violet-coloured skin, which gradually darkened to nearly black, on the lips, cheeks, tongue, interior of the mouth, and ends of the fingers ; at the same time, the white of the eyes, and the irides more especially, became violet-coloured. The child was eight years old when the account of the case was given. T. | (10) Compare § 38. Baillie also observed two instances of black colouring of the skin from continued internal use of the ARGENTUM NitRatTuM. v. N. Samml. auserl Abhandl. z. Gebr. prakt Aerzte. Vol. IX. Part III p. 379.—Many muscles, viz. oysters, plicatule, anomie, balani, &c. change the colour of their shells to that of the bodies on which they are fastened. v. Defrance in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Vol. I. p. 16. (11) The scars of coloured nations are at first lighter, but subsequently they become as dark as the original skin.—[ Pied negro, v. Morgan, in Amer. Phil. Trans: Vol. If. p.'392. ~ T.] (12) Bruckmann in Horn’s Archiv f. medic. Erfahrung. Vol. II. Part II. p. 247. (13) I know a lady who has a weak chest, in whom oftentimes sundry large skin spots, of a beautiful cerulean blue, appear on the extremities, without the slightest cause, and when she is in perfect health; after several hours they gradually subside. § 91. Among the VICES OF TEXTURE in the skin, INFLAMMATION, dermatitis, must be first mentioned, which is usually designated by the name of St. ANTHONY’s FIRE, erysipelas,' and can exhibit very different degrees and peculiarities. In the higher degree of inflammation, the skin is not only aDHERENT to the parts beneath, but also to the éxternal surface of other parts of the skin with which it is in contact. This inflammation frequently runs into SUPPURATION, in consequence of which, ULCERS of the skin occur; these indeed present a very different appearance, according as they arise from external or internal causes, and in the latter case are, for instance, either of a syphilitic, scrofulous, or gouty nature.’ ‘THickENING and HARDENING of the skin are also a very usual consequence of inflammation, which sometimes attains a very high degree, but never runs intO TRUE OSSIFICATION, a condition which never occurs in the skin. On the contrary, the skin is very subject tO MORTIFICATION, in consequence of which large patches of it are destroyed. The skin also undergoes various kinds of degenerations in man and animals, in the ERUPTIVE DIS- EASES, both in the exanthematous and impetiginous, in which are produced the various kinds of spots, elevations, knots, pustules, bladders, scabs, chaps, &c. ‘The texture of the skin is also sometimes more extensively changed in SCROFULA, SYPHILIS, PELLAGRA,*” RADESYGE, in EASTERN and WESTERN LEPRA, which may occur on almost all animals; so also may it be congenital in various ways, in the so-called MoTHERS’ MARKs, nevi materni,’ which, however, do not seem to occur in animals. The sebaceous follicles, crypte sebacee, found in the skin,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
