Skin diseases : including their definition, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, morbid anatomy and treatment : a manual for students and practitioners / by Malcolm Morris.

Date:
1879
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Credit: Skin diseases : including their definition, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, morbid anatomy and treatment : a manual for students and practitioners / by Malcolm Morris. 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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    and frequently n general hypersemic rash, most intense round the hair follicles and almost indistinguishable from the erup- tion of scarlatina. Occasionally after the internal administration of quinine, or of anesthetics, a patchy, hypera^mic, or slightly raised eruption appeals on pretty large are« of the face, neck, hands, and portions of the trunk. The patches are transitory, and it is a question whether some of them are really due to the drug or are merely erythema fugax, accidentaUy coinciding with its administration. Copaiba in some cases causes a rash which at the onset resembles that of measles. Hypersemic, slightly raised patch.es, at first purplish red and sometimes subsequently dark rea or even bsemorrhagic in character, make their appearance on the face, trunk, and extremities. By confliience they may produce large plaques, or a diffuse paler redness may smroiuid the indi- vidual darker papules, wbich arise at first round the hair follicles. More or less severe pyrexia and anorexia, with dry, brown, furred tongue and slight or severe prostration, may be met with. Under the administration internally of arsenic, a vesicular, herpetic eruption, identical with that of zoster, sometimes developes. Iodide of potassium or other salts of iodine taken internally produce sometimes an acneiform, but more frequently a bullous, eruption. An erythematous raised base makes its appear- ance, on which numerous vesicles, gradually enlarging and by confluence producing a bulla, are developed. A purpuric erup- tion, varying in intensity fi'ora slight petechise on the legs to severe P. hemorrhagica, is also occasionally excited. Bromide of potassium gives rise to hard tubercular swellings, resembling acne, round the sebaceous and hair follicles, which occasionally run on into pustules, or deCnite furuncles are pro- duced. The cessation of the drugs, and the application of local sedatives, with purgatives internally, is usually followed by the subsidence of the eruptions.