Descriptive catalogue of the dermatological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Erasmus Wilson.
- William James Erasmus Wilson
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the dermatological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![Geoup XV.] 106 the absence of anything similar on any other part of the body. The patient was under the care of Guibout, and the treatment adopted for the cure of the disease was, a starch poultice to remove the crust, and subsequently antiparasitic remedies, that is, solutions of the per- chloride of mercuiy. Baretta. 443. Photograph of favus of the scalp. This figure, with the two following, were presented by Professor E. PI. Gregory, of St. Louis, Missouri. They exhibit a view of the disease very different from that shown by the previous illustrations of the affection as it occurs in England and France, and the comparison is instructive as marking the difference of form of the same disease in different countries and in different states of society. In this photograph there is no trace of favus-cups, but an accumulation amidst the hair of a thick layer of mortar-like substance, rough and shapeless in figure, and occupying the greater part of the scalp. 444. Photograph of the back of the same patient. The crusts are circular in figui-e, and have the appearance of thick dabs of rough plaster adhering to the skin. On the arms several of these circular patches are blended, and give rise to a mass of considerable prominence and extent. There is no trace of isolated crusts, and no indication of the origin of the disease by small separate cups. 445. Photograph of the right forearm of the same patient, on which the favous masses more nearly resemble rough oyster-shells than anything else. Moreover, there is a circular marking on the surface of the crusts that denotes the manner of enlargement of the masses to be one of general centrifugal growth. 446. Phytosis versicoloe; pityriasis versicolor^ Willan. Coloured lithograph of this affection in a man 32 years of age. The morbid pigmentation of the skin is uniformly diffused over the neck, the sides of the breast, and the front of the abdomen, and assumes the character of small oblonof islets in the hypochondriac region, flanks, and upper arms. The nipple](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24758115_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
