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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![genitally malformed; to this especially belongs the consoxi- DATION of two, three, and four nails on connected fingers and toes. In many diseases, the form of the nail also is changed; thus, for instance, in the blue disease, the entire tips of the fingers and toes become unusually large, broad, and curved ; in consumption they become curved and arched in a peculiar way, either in the early or very last stage of the disease; in lepra, mishapen,” &c. Newly produced nails are also fre- quently very much malformed. (1) Plempius De affectibus capillorum et unguium. 4to. Sorau. 1662. -- Werner D. de unguibus humanis, varioque modo, quo possunt corrumpi. Lips. 1773. —-- Niurnberger Meletemata super digitorum unguibus. 4to. Wittenb. 1786.—Blech Tractatio de mutationibus unguium morbosis. 4to. Berol. 1816, with engravings. -— Oxanan in Annales cliniques de Montpellier, Juillet, 1822. —Royer Collard in Repert. général d’Anatom. et de Physiol. pathol. Vol. II. p- 199, pl. 6 and 7.—Bergmann Die Krankheiten der Haut, der Haare, und Nagel. 8vo. Leipz. 1824.—Coleman, Observations on the structure, economy, and diseases of the foot of the horse, Vol. I. and II. 4to. London, 1801 and 1802. Compare also Camper, on the best form of the shoe, and Wardrop, an account of some diseases of the toes and fingers, &c. in Med. chir. Transact. Vol. V. p. 129, and the writings of the Chiropedists. — A. Cooper, in Lond. med. and phys. Journ. April, 1827. [J Hall, Commentaries on some of the more important diseases of females. 8vo. London, 1827. T.| (2) For instance, in a monster in the Museum at Berlin; on all the toes in a monster in the Bresl. Mus. v. Ofto Verzeichniss der anat. Praparatensamm- lung, No. 2888. (3) Neuhof Gesandtschaft an den tartarischen Chan, u.s.w. p. 263. (4) Franck de Franckenau D. de unguibus monstrosis, etc. Hafnie, 1716,— Rouhault Observation anatomique sur des ongles monstrueux in Mém. de Paris. ogi 19. Hist. -p. 38. (5) Old examples in de Plouquet Repertorium Art. Unguis; Haller Elem. Physiol. Vol. V. p. 30.—in Blech.—A case, Henning, in Horn’s Archiv f. med. Erfahrung, 1823, Septbr. u. Octbr. p. 205. fig. 2 and 3.—Lion gives several plates of very ill-formed nails, pl. 1 and 2; I have also seen several very large. In the Bresl. Mus. in a monster, No. 2888, is a part of the left hand very long and clawlike. In the Museum at Freyburg, I saw all the nails of one hand remark- ably large. [Locke in Phil. Trans. Vol. XIX. p. 594. Nails on most of the fingers and toes four inches long, and other horny growths on the back of the hands, in a boy of twenty years old.—R. Wroe. Case of a boy in which, within a twelvemonth, the nails of the left hand grew to the length of two inches, ‘‘ with great quicks or roots under the nails,” which were painful when cut, but not otherwise ; subsequently they grew on the fingers of the right hand; on both hands they seemed to acquire their full growth in twelve months, then fell off without pain, and were reproduced. It is further mentioned that “ he was mise- rably overspread with leprosy,’”’ probably ichthyosis. v. Phil. Trans. Vol. XXIV. p- 1899. In the Museum at St. Thomas’s Hospital there are two nails about - two inches in length, very much curved, and extending far beyond the ends of the fingers, and I remember it used to be mentioned at the lecture that they were so extremely sensitive, that any attempt at cutting them was attended with severe pain, but I have no further history of them. In Cruvelhier, Anatomie Pathologique, fol. Part VII. plate 6, Maladies de la peau (productions cornées), fig. 2 and 2', have a very near resemblance to those just mentioned, but at pre- sent no account is given of them. T.] (6) Museus D. de unguibus monstrosis. Hafn. 1716, with fig.—Locke in Philos. Transact. No. 230.—Haskell in New England Journ. of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. VIII. No. 1. Boston, 1819.—<Ash Phil. Transact. No. 176.—Behrends and W. Soemmerring, pl. 2—4.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33489166_0001_0131.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
