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.
130/474 page 116
![hair, all the skin was covered with scales. v. Fresier in den Mém. de |’ Acad. 1722, p. 21. In negroes, the cuticle on the sole of the foot is often thickened and burst from the heat of the soil. v. Mercurialis De decoriatione, p.m. 103.— Blumenbach De generis hum. varietate nativa. p. 246, note 6. (9) To wit, the blackish tinge in a new-born child, which, after three weeks, is lost in the black colour of the cuticle. Bernstein in der Salzb. medic. chir. Zeitung, 1813, No. 87, p. 143. . (10) We observe the hands of dyers, the colouring of the cuticle from poul- tices, plasters, from steeping in a solution of lapis infernalis, the accidental colouring of the skin of many nations with carthamus tinctorius, bixa orellana, &c. (11) In my younger days, I had once to treat a person with this disease, in whose bed I found, every morning, three pints of such scales. (12) For instance, arsenic.—de Haen Rat. Med. Part X. p. 2. § 7. (13) In many diseases. Camels sometimes lose the whole sole of the foot in wet ground.——Pallas Neue Nordische Beitrage. Vol. II. p. 160. [It has also occurred, that after the operation of nerving horses, proposed by Mr. Sewell, and often attended with success, the hoof has been thrown off. 'T.] (14) Bergmann Prime line anat. comparat. p. 27. (15) Rudolphi Anat. physiol. Abhandl. p. 46. (16) Hedwig in Isenflam’s and Rosenmiiller’s Beitragen, Vol. II. p. 54. Y SECOND CHAPTER. Of the Nails and Hoofs.' § 97. In rare cases the nails are WANTING originally ;? this especially occurs in the imperfect development of super- numerary fingers and toes. Sometimes also a GREATER NUMBER Of nails is seen, so that one finger or toe exhibits, with other traces of duplication, even two nails; it is said that many Chinese have two nails on the little toe. Their s1zz, THICKNESS, and FORM, is often irregular ;* thus are they found congenitally Too sMALL and TOO THIN, or become so in later years, as the consequence of deficient nutrition, as in paralytic persons; in horses a hoof may be too narrow, the so-called NARROW-HEELED HOOF, so also is the SHRINKING and COoN- TRACTION of the hoof, not an unfrequent vice. Often we find the contrary, viz. the increase of the nail with thickening, very preat elongation, claw-like curving,’ &c. This sometimes occurs simultaneously with the increase of other horny organs,° although it may also occur alone; it is often caused by incessant cutting and rubbing; and is not unfrequently seen in animals.’ Irregular enlargement of the nail, and pressure causes its CONVERSION INTO FLESH. Frequently also are nails con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
