Eruptions of the face, head, and hands : with the latest improvements in the treatment of diseases of the skin / by T.H. Burgess.

  • Burgess Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), -1865.
Date:
1849
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Eruptions of the face, head, and hands : with the latest improvements in the treatment of diseases of the skin / by T.H. Burgess. 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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    PREFACE. Since first directing my attention to Diseases of the Skin, I have often remarked that a knowledge of these complaints might be more easily acquired by carefully observing those parts of the body where skin affections most frequently occur; for example, the exposed sur- faces. By confining our observation to one parti- cular part, until we are familiar with the characters of the different eruptions which appear there, we shall more advantageously study this branch of medicine, than by contemplating it through the medium of Classifications, the best of which are arbitrary and fleeting. Although most of the diseases to which the Skin is subject may appear on any part of the body, there are, undoubtedly, certain eruptions which show a pre-