Hand-list of the portraits illustrating syphilitic symptoms and conditions : now exhibited in the clinical museum of the Polyclinic, Chenies Street / by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Hand-list of the portraits illustrating syphilitic symptoms and conditions : now exhibited in the clinical museum of the Polyclinic, Chenies Street / by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D-LIST OF PORTRAITS ILLUSTRATING SYPHILITIC SYMPTOMS treatment. A diabetic is sometimes mentally not quite normal, and to treat this demands theqjersonal qualifications of the medical man i^ND-LIST OF THE PORTRAITS ILLUSTRATING SYPHILITIC SYMPTOMS AND CONDITIONS. NOW EXHIBITED IN THE CLINICAL MUSEUM OF THE POLYCLINIC, CHENIES STREET. BY SIR JONATHAN HUTCHINSON, LL.D., F.R.S. This collection (which is still receiving additions) already comprises nearly 400 subjects. They have been collected from various sources. The numbers given in the following list refer to the frames in which the drawings are placed, and not to individual portraits, several of which are often placed in one frame. Where the word original is applied it means that the portrait was taken in water-colours under my own supervision. Most of them are by Burgess, a few by Miss Green. The portraits are arranged on the walls and on detached stands in the floor of the large museum, and occupy the whole of it. Al- most all the exhibits are conspicuously num- bered, and in many instances descriptive details are appended. The nature of the subject-matter does not permit of any very precise classification, but a certain amount of grouping has been attempted, as will be shown in the following hand-list. Taken as a whole, I confidently believe that this collection will supply to the student of syphilis unique opportunities for .an easy recapitulation of his knowledge, and that it will, in some instances, give novel suggestions which may prove valuable. Our indebtedness to Chotzen's valuable Atlas must be especially acknowledged. The plates are accompanied by notes of the cases, which render it a mine of im- portant facts in reference to syphilis. The publishers, of this work have kindly placed an additional copy of it at my disposal for my collection, and I have acknowledged with many thanks a similar courtesy at the hands of the editors and publishers of the new “ System of Syphilis.” Amongst other works from which numerous plates have been taken are the chromos from the St. Louis Hospital, published by Rebman and edited by Pringle ; Kaposi’s Hand-Atlas; and “Syphilis,” by Coopqr and Cotterell. I must ask the indulgence of some to whom the collection has been indebted if the name of the author is not always affixed, as it has not always been easy.,to assign it correctly. The collection, being (if I may use such terms) both national and international, is of much value, as enabling us to judge of the exact meanings attached by various authori- ties to the names which they employ. Thus the observer, looking through our long series illustrating primary sores and named “chan- croids, ’ “ ulcus molle,” “ulcus elevatum,” or “simple sores,” will find that absence of speci- fic induration or sclerosis is almost the only feature in which they agree. Unless I much mistake, he will be quite unable to pick out any one sore which deserves to rank as in any special sense the type of a “ soft chancre.” He will see that not infrequently the adjectives used are applicable to the stage rather than to any permanent feature of the sore. Amongst other matters of interest illus- trated in the collection I may mention that a number of drawings show that multipli- city is not always to be ascribed to auto- inoculation, and further that auto-inoculation may often attend sores which are those of true syphilis. A very instructive group illustrates “ her- petic chancres,” in which great multiplicity occurs, but is always present from the first. Division I.—Indurated Primary Sores. Group I.—Erratic or Misplaced Chancres; Non- Venereal Chancres. No. 1.—Original portrait of young woman with very large, deep, hard-edged chancre near the chin.