On the relationship of some forms of integumentary atrophy / by Dyce Duckworth.

  • Duckworth, Dyce, Sir, 1840-1928.
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[1883]
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Credit: On the relationship of some forms of integumentary atrophy / by Dyce Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RELATIONSHIP OF SOME FORMS OF INTEGUMENTARY ATROPHY. By DYCE DUCKWORTH, M.D., F.R.C.P., ASSISTANT-PHYSICIAN TO ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL. Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal for January 1883. The subject of localized atrophy occupies at the present time a somewhat indeterminate place in nosology. In this communication I wish more particularly to call atten¬ tion to some forms of local wasting which occur in the integu¬ ment, and to point out a relationship which I conceive to exist between them. It is, perhaps, not sufficiently realized that morbid conditions may be of greater or less intensity, and it is still common for bodily ailments to be regarded too much as definite entities, and also as definite quantities, whenever and wherever they exist. Putting aside acute diseases generally, it is certain that many chronic disorders occur in varying degrees of intensity. This is true of phthisis, Bright’s disease, diabetes, myelitis, and of many skin diseases. A relationship exists between the milder and graver forms, although the expression of it may not always be completely manifested. I believe this to be the case with respect to localized atrophies, and I shall now refer to such instances as claim the attention of the physician. To take, first, the simplest forms, the pigmentary diseases. There are the two conditions recognised as leucopathia and canities, affecting respectively the Malpighian layer of the skin