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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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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    of print, the practitioner will find, grouped together, within a small compass, those diseases which he is constantly liable to meet in practice; and he may at a glance ascertain the nature and treatment of any given eruption of the particular group referred to; and so with the diseases of other regions. The arrangement which I have adopted in each group is a modification of that of Biett; not that I think it perfect, but because it will be easily un- derstood, from its simplicity, and as a perfect and lasting classification is an impossibility in the pre- sent state of the anatomy of the skin. Until such time as our acquaintance with the intimate struc- ture of the cutaneous tissue shall enable us to es- tablish a classification that will endure, I prefer the unadorned arrangement of Biett, with all its imperfections, to the exploded refinements of Alibert, or the ephemeral conceits of his imitators. Biett himself was sensible of the objections that existed against forming a classification after the model which he adopted, and used to observe in his lectures, that a correct arrangement could only be formed on an anatomical basis; but the time had not arrived for thinking seriously of establishing one. M. Cazenave, when he xmblished, in his lectures, in