The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates.

Date:
1906
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Credit: The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    nails, and become little conical, sclerosed stomps. From the fingers the disease extends njwn the palms and backs of the hands. The feet may be involved, but less pro- foundly, and the disease may occur elsewhere on the body, though rarely. There may be subjective symptoms of moderate pruritus and local pain which may be severe and radiate up the arm. The disease is progressive and incur- able. It is probably a neuritis. It occurs both in men and women. Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans. A rare disease that begins on the hands and slowly s])reads up the arms. It begins as small crimson or ])urplish-red nodides looking like chilblains, which later become atro])hic, thin, and wrinkled. Its course is chronic and the treatment un- availing. Acrodynia is a disease closely allied to ]iellagra in its symptoms, that has been observed chiefly amongst French and Belgian soldiers, and is probably diu‘ to some defect in food sup])lies. It begins with gastro-intestinal irrita- tion, to which certain neuroses soon add themselves, such as formication, hypersesthesia, and anjesthesia. An ery- thema of the hands and feet, and it may be of the whole body, followed by desquamation or by brown or black pigmentation, is the cutaneous element of the disease, llecovery usually takes place, though death may occur from diarrhoea. Acromegaly. A disease eharacterized by overgrowth of the bones and soft tissues of the face, hands, wrists, and feet. It is a rare condition and is allied to elejfiiantiasis. It is a progressive and, usually, symmetrical disease, and at times attains immense proportions. The skin becomes dry and harsh, yellowish and wrinkled. Fibromata may develop. Symptoms of nervous derangement are also present. The cause is unknown and treatment is of no avail. Actinomycosis. While this is usually a disease of cattle, in which it causes tumors of the jaws, it may attack man and produce nodular tumors with fistulous openings. It
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