Synopsis of lectures on diseases of the skin / by Robert John Garden.
- Garden, Robert John.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Synopsis of lectures on diseases of the skin / by Robert John Garden. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![33 [Sheet 2.] Class I.—HYPER^EMI/E. A. Active Hyperemias. In these there is simply an overflow of blood to the part, but without effusion from the blood-vessels. Characteristics — (i) Redness, circumscribed or diffuse, which is not elevated above the level of the skin, and which temporarily disappears on pressure with the finger ; (2) Local elevation of temperature ; (3) General elevation of temperature only when of great extent; (4) Course always more or less acute ; (5) Causes but slight shedding of epithelium ; (6) Leaves no pigmentation; (7) Post mortem, no mark. 1. Afebrile—No general rise of temperature. (a) Physiological. Erythema pudoris or Blushing. „ neonatorum or Yellow Gum. A general redness of the skin, commencing immediately after birth, increasing in intensity for two or three days and then gradually dis- appearing. During its disappearance the skin has frequently a yellow hue and hence the name—Yellow Gum. Explanations — (1) Temperature of air ; (2) Manipulation of child ; (3) Irritation by clothing; (4) Change of relative pressure in arterial and venous systems at time of birth. (b) Pathological. Erythema traumaticum, i.e., Erythema produced by any irritant.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20385778_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
