Hereditary herpes zoster / by G. A. Gibson.

Date:
[1885?]
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Credit: Hereditary herpes zoster / by G. A. Gibson. 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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    account of its researches into the morbid anatomy, but also from its valuable historical survey of the subject, to be congestion or inflammation of the posterior nerve- roots, or of the ganglia, or of the nerve-trunks beyond the ganglia. While it must be admitted that these two cases may be merely associated by a co-incidence, it seems more probable that there has been an oblique transmission from father to daughter of a predisposition to the nervous changes on which herpes zoster depends. In both patients the disease set in during the winter, and the daughter was attacked the year following her father’s second seizure. The eruption was situated very near the common position of herpes iris when affecting the arm, but in all its symptoms and appearances the disease in both father and daughter was true herpes zoster. * Archiv fiir Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und fur Klinische Medicin, 96ten Band, S. 195. Printed by Hall and English, High Street, Birmingham.