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Title: Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, George Henry, 1846-1937
Subjects: Skin Diseases Dermatology
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of the epidermis, as seen above.Moreover, th«y do not overlay an infiltrated or lumpy condition ofthe skin, as in the papular syphilide. The scaling is the main featureof the eruption. The white discs have coalesced for the most part,and present the unmistakable features of psoriasis diffusa. If theflexor aspect of the arms of these two patients were visible, wewould doubtless find the psoriatic eruption comparatively sparse, ifnot entirely absent, while the syphilide would probably appear asabundant as upon the extensor surface, and very likely appear in thebend of the elbow, where psoriasis rarely if ever occurs. The lower illustration shows the infiltrated patches with aroughened surface or an ulceration with an irregular and underminedborder, which is characteristic of tuberculosis of the skin. Theeruption might suggest syphilis, but its very slow growth, togetherwith the absence of any annular or serpiginous character, would atonce suggest a non-syphilitic origin. PLATE LXXXVII.
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I ight, i>»l>5. b) i ■. II. I■•■x. SYPHILODERMA PAPULO-SQUAMOSUMPSORIASIS DIFFUSATUBERCULOSIS CUTIS PLATE LXXXVIII.SYPHILODERMA HERED1TARIUM SYPHILODERMA HEREDITARILY Syphilis occurring in childhood is usually, though by no meansinvariably, the result of inherited disease. Infants at the breast mayacquire syphilis as well as adults and the resulting eruption is notunlike that seen in later years. The inherited disease may develop in utero, in which case alarge proportion of infants are born dead. It may manifest itself inan eruption at birth or this may develop any time during the firstyear. As a rule, however, the symptoms of inherited syphilis appearduring the first three months. Emaciation is one of the mostcommon symptoms and the syphilitic infant with wrinkled face,sallow skin, and fretful cry often presents a tiny caricature of old age.A characteristic coryza or snuffles usually develops and interfereswith nursing and ordinary breathing. The inherited eruption in

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