Selected monographs on dermatology / P.G. Unna [and others].

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1893
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    character as before, appeared ; the trunk and neck were involved, and also several slightly raised erythematous spots were seen upon the legs. The eruption disappeared within forty-eight hours after discontinuing the use of the tablets. Twice again, at the suggestion of S., who was desirous of testing the relation of the eruption to the drug, the patient took the tablets, and each time a similar eruption was deve- loped. RHUS TOXICODENDRON—RHUS VENENATA RHDS VERNIX.1 The irritating effect of rhus upon the skin depends largely upon individual susceptibility. While many persons are RESIN. Jacob attributed an urticarial eruption to tbis agency. A woman, aged 36, took about as much powdered resin as two walnuts for tbe relief of diarrhoea. Next day her face began to swell, and a papular eruption of urticarial nature appeared on the chest and arms. EHUBAEB. Kuehn recorded a case of a generalised and desquamative recurrent scarlatiniform exanthem following the ingestion of rhubarb, ipecacuanha, &c, in the same individual. Goldenberg saw an instance in the case of a man aged 64. The eruption occupied the two cheeks, and was formed of reddish-brown pustules, of unequal dimensions, reposing on an infiltrated base, and forming in certain points, by their union, tumours, riddled with orifices and covered with thick crusts, and a similar eruption occupying tbe back of the two hands, reproducing itself on three different occasions after the administration of rhubarb. It was at first attributed to salicylate of soda, of which the patient made use, but its reappearance on several occasions after the employment of rhubarb did not permit any doubt of its real origin. Litten, of Berlin, also recorded a case in a man of 45 some hours after taking rhubarb. There was rigor, fever, limb pain, and a visible papulo-pustular eruption generalised all over body and scalp and mucous membranes (mouth, phaiynx, eyelids). After the development of the erup- tion all general symptoms went. The eruption was composed of haemor- rhagic taches of various forms, then pemphigoid pustules, confluent in certain places, and presenting then the aspect of foliaceous pemphigus. The lips were enormously swollen, were covered with pustules and bloody crusts. The tongue was affected. Many recrudescences and profuse uretrorrhagia occurred. General state was nevertheless excellent. Twice before a similar eruption resulted after rhubarb. Litten, however, after cure, again gave infusion of rhubarb from another chemist, in case impurity was in the first. The same evening rigors were experienced, and a similar eruption occurred.—T. C. F. 1 J. C. White gives the three species of plants growing abundantly in the