Skin diagnosis : their description, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment with a copious formulary / by Tilbury Fox.

  • Fox, Tilbury, 1836-1879.
Date:
1873
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    Anthrax (uvBpctZ a burning coal), a term applied to carbuncle, from its dark coal-like appearance. It is also thought that the word carbuncle was used to' designate the disease from the supposed resemblance of the inflammatory swelling to the stone carbuncle, 232. Area, a bald spot (from areo, to be dried up). It has the same significance as alopecia. The ordinary bald spots on the head are called alopecia areata, 501. Army itch, 423. Arsenical remedies, see Formula, Nos. 515 et seq. „ caustic, see Formula, No. 17. „ rashes, 133. Asteatodes (a not, areap fat), deficient secretion of sebaceous matter, 487. Atrophic diseases, 330. Atrophia (a not, rpcxprj nourishment), deficient nourishment, atrophy. Aurungzebe, synonym of Delhi boil, called after the emperor of that name, who had the disease, 241. Bacchia, a synonym of acne rosacea (from Bacchus, the god of wine) ; it being supposed that the too free use of spirits was the cause of the disease, 494. Bakers' itch, 139. Baldness, 501. Baras, an Arabian designation for leprosy. Barbadoes leg (bucnemia tropica, or elephantiasis Arabum), hypertrophy of the fibrous tissues of the legs, commences with inflammation of the lymphatics, 358. Baths, see Formulary, Nos. 1 to 13. Beaupurthey treatment of leprosy, 328. Belladonna rash, 135. Berat, one of the ancient terms used to designate the true leprosy ; it signifies bright spot. Berat lebena was the bright white leprosy, or the leuce of the Greeks, and berat cecha the dark leprosy, or the melas of the Greeks. Bhau Daji treatment of leprosy, 328. Biskra bouton, 246. Blebs, 32. Bloody sweating, 482. Boak, the Hebrew term for the lepra vulgaris, or alphos of Celsus. Boils, 231. Bots, 406. Bouton d'Alep, 245. Bricklayers' itch, 139. Bromidrosis (J3pwfioQ a stench ; idpug sweat), fetid perspiration, 480. Bromides, eruptions from, 134. Bucnemia (/3ov, a Greek augmentative, Kvriixr) the leg), the same as Barbadoes leg. Literally, bulky or tumid leg, 358. Bucnemia tropica, 358. Bug, 406. Bug bites, 406. Bulla, from the Latin bulla, a bubble. It is the term applied to blisters or large vesicles, as seen in herpes and pemphigus, 32. Bullous diseases, 199. n „ of syphilitic nature, 287. Caootrophia {kuki) bad, and rpop) food), ill-nourishment. Callosities (Callosus, thick-skinned), 333. Calvities, from calvus bald, a term generally signifying the baldness of old age. Cancer, Latin for a crab, 382. Cancroid, cancer, and elSog likeness, is the term applied to diseases like cancer, or semi- malig'nant affections like kelis. Canities (canus hoary), whiteness of the hair. Catarrhal inflammation, sec Eczema. _ Carate (from the Portuguese cards, complexion), a pigment disease (deficiency) seen in New Granada, 403. m*«k Carbuncle differently derived by authors, from carlo charcoal, because of the black slough, or carbuncle, because of t he red and fiery nature of the disease itself, 232. Carcinoma (KapKlt'U)p.a=KapKivog, cancer), 382. Causes, general summary of, 49. Caustics, sec Formula. Nos. 14 to 26.