A dictionary of practical medicine: comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures, and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different forms of life : with numerous prescriptions for the medicines recommended, a classification of diseases according to pathological principles, a copious bibliography, with references, and an appendix of approved formulae : the whole forming a library of pathology and practical medicine and a digest of medical literature (Volume 8).

  • Copland, James, 1791-1870.
Date:
1834-59
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Credit: A dictionary of practical medicine: comprising general pathology, the nature and treatment of diseases, morbid structures, and the disorders especially incidental to climates, to the sex, and to the different forms of life : with numerous prescriptions for the medicines recommended, a classification of diseases according to pathological principles, a copious bibliography, with references, and an appendix of approved formulae : the whole forming a library of pathology and practical medicine and a digest of medical literature (Volume 8). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    99. Having exhibited what may be considered a strictly natural grouping or classificattoyi of the changes, appearing either primarily in the tissues of the skin, or contemporaneously with, or consec- utively upon, febrile and constitutional diseases, it will be seen that the local connexions, the symptomatic relations, and the more prominent features and alliances of these changes, are brought more completely and more accurately under view. And it will be more clearly perceived that these affections of the skin, so difficult to arrange, and so generally considered and treated as local alter- ations merely, are more or less important mani- festations, in the cutaneous tissues, of disordered or diseased conditions of one or more of the vital functions — of the organic nervous influence or energy, of the digestive and assimilating func- tions, of the depurating or eliminating functions, and, consequently, of the circulating fluids, and of the constitution or frame in general. Thus, a natural arrangement of cutaneous affections di- rects the attention more entirely to the relations, and constitutional and visceral dependencies, of these affections, and leads to rational and suc- cessful methods of cure, most of the affections grouped under the same order manifesting such morbid relations and connexions as require sim- ilar indications and means for each. 100. As artificial arrangements of cutaneous diseases have been so commonly received, and as they tend to facilitate diagnosis, I shall con- clude this subject by giving the improved modi- fication of the classification of Willan, by M. Rayer, the arrangement of Willan being itself only a modification of that originally published by Plenck. DIVISION I. Diseases of the Skin. TABLE. Chapter I. Inflammatory Affec- tions, distributed according to the Number and Form of their elementa- ry Lesions. Section I. Having a single ele- mentary Form. Having several ele- mentary Forms. '1. Exanthemata.—Erythema, Erysipelas, Ru- beola, Roseola, Scarlatina, Urticaria; Artifi- cial Exanthemata. 2. Bull/e— Pemphigus, Rupia ; Artificial Bul- la;—Blisters, Ampullte. 3. VESicuLiE. — Herpes, Eczema, Hydrargyria, Scabies, Miliaris sudatoria (suette mUiatre), Sudamina; Artificial Vesicles. 4. Pustule.—Variola, Varicella, Vaccinia, Vac- cinella, Acne, Rosacea, Sycosis, Impetigo, Fa- vus, Ecthyma ; Artificial Pustules. 5. Furunculi.—Hordeolum, Fuiunculus, An- thrax. 6. Gangren*.—Anthracion vel Pustula malig- na, Anthrax Pestis. 7. Papula.—Strophulus, Lichen, Prurigo; Ar- tificial Papula;. 8. SQUAMiE.—Pityriasis, Psoriasis, Lepra, Pel- lagra ; Artificial Squamae. 9. Tubercula.—Lupus, Scrofula, Cancer ; Ele- phantiasis Graecorum ; Artificial Tubercles. Exanthematica, Bullosa, Vesiculosa, Pustulosa, '1. Syphilis. \ Squamosa, Papulosa, Tuberculosa, Vegetati- va. Exanthematica, Bullosa, Gangrenosa. Exanthematica, Bullosa, Gangrenosa. 2. Ambustio. .3. Pernio. Chapter II. f [Anemi*. the Skin not refer- Congestus sanguinei. abletoInflamma-Jn;EM0RRHAGliE Chapter III. 1 Morbid States of the IPerspirationis Ephidrosls secreting Func- Epidermidis Exfoliatio. tions of the Skin. J Chapter IV. Neuroses of the Skin. {Purpura (Petechia;, Vibi- ces, Ecchymoses, Der- matorrhagia). Anaesthesia, Hyperesthesia. Chapter V. Faulty Structure, or unusual States of one or other of the Elements of the Skin. Pigmenti (Achromata; Dyschromata) Hypertrophic. Gangr*na sim- plex. Cicatrices. Defectus congen- itus Cutis. Extensio vel Re- laxatio insoli- ta Cutis. Albinismus seu Leucopa- thia, Nigrities, Ephe- lis, Lentigo, Chloasma, Melasma, Naevus pig- mentarius, Color caeru- leus, Color subflavus ; Artificial Discolora- tions. Ichthyosis, Verruca, Pro- ducta cornea, Tylosis. ' Phlebectasia, Angiectasia capillaris, Naevus ara- neus flammeus, &c. Tumor vascularis. } Cheloidea, Tumores va- rii, Elephantiasis Ara- .. \ bica, Andrum, et Pe- nes;, et Tela; adi- darthora;, Barbadoes P°sae- t Leg, .fee. Papillarum et Epi- dermidis. Vasorum Cutis. Corii, Membrana; cellularis subcuta- well as the papules of prurigo, &c. These and other cases of a similar kind only go to prove that there are no constant characters, nothing absolute in nature, especial- ly in morbid nature. Moreover, these instances of trans- | with an accurate diagnosis.] formation of one genus or species of cutaneous disease into another are only exceptions to a general rule, or ac- cidental complications, which do not materially interfere