A memoir / by Sir Samuel Wilks.

  • Wilks, Samuel, Sir, 1824-1911.
Date:
1911
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Credit: A memoir / by Sir Samuel Wilks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the great French authority, called this disease first mentioned “ heloicle from ktjXi?, a brand or scar. The word is sometimes spelled “ cheloid ” in refer- ence to the “ claw ” appearance of the disease as if from yjnkr]; while others who have represented the tortoise-like shape it has assumed would refer it to ^eXuc. Another case which is mentioned in the “ Report of the Clinical Society ” is one which Addison had under his care for a very long time because it resembled the leprosy of the East in every particular. The patient was a tailor and an Irishman and had never been out of Great Britain. When first he came under notice he said the complaint had been coming on for three years. He first felt pricking and numbness in the hands; at the same time his voice became husky. His hands and feet were much altered in shape, the skin thickened and covered with fissures and ulcers. His face presented a most hideous appearance; his lips were thickened and his nose flattened ; there were large folds of skin over- hanging the eyes and these nearly met two other large masses of skin coming from the cheeks on both sides. He died eventually from ulceration of the windpipe extending from the vocal cords to the bronchial bifurcation. Addison called the disease the elephantiasis of the Greeks or the French term “ U'pre tuberciihuse.” In this report I also mention, in connection with apoplexy and paralysis, the state of the pupil, in which at that time I was much interested. I state that in two cases of right hemiplegia the left pupil