Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / By Richard Carmichael. Illustrated by engravings of the different forms of eruption. Reported by Samuel Gordon.

  • Richard Carmichael
Date:
1842
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Credit: Clinical lectures on venereal diseases / By Richard Carmichael. Illustrated by engravings of the different forms of eruption. Reported by Samuel Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BUTTON SCURVY. 19] sisting of salt dried beef and pork, and semi-putrid fish without any vegetables or even bread, which is so scarce in those high latitudes, that the inhabi- tants are often obliged to substitute for it the pul- verized bones of fishes. While subsisting on this wretched diet, they live in low, damp huts, in which both air and light are carefully excluded. The mode of curing this disease is analogous to that for sea scurvy, and consists chiefly in avoiding the exciting causes, and in the use of esculent ve- getables, fruits, and vegetable acids. There is a disease peculiar to this country term- ed button scurvy by the peasantry (I believe it has not, as yet, received any scientific appellation), the appearances of which you ought to be well acquaint- ed with, as they might be mistaken readily for those of a venereal poison. ‘The spots are convex, being more raised in their centre than at their circumfe- rence, and vary from the size of a silver penny to that of a shilling; exhibiting an unequal raspberry- like appearance. ‘They are in general covered by a thick, tenacious lymph, which can with difficulty be removed. ‘These appearances are accurately dis- played in the drawings which I psesent to you, and from which you observe that they are thinly scat- tered over the surface of the body, but are more numerous on the inside of the thighs, and arms, and on the chest, near the axilla, than on other parts. In fact, like venereal condylomata, the tu- hercules muqueuses of the French, they are more