Volume 2

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.

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    When the papule are small and numerous, and de- veloped on the arm, the eruption has been erroneously supposed to be a syphilitic form of itch—hence the name of scabies venerea. There is no venereal itch; but small vesicles and pustules are so frequently mingled with the papular eruption, that the practi- tioner should be always on his guard not to confound them, or mistake one disease for the other. The sy- philitic papular eruption is most commonly met with in adults, and, unlike certain forms of the pustular and tubercular syphilides, is seldom observed in the new-born infant. Syphilitic lichen occurs more fre- quently on the face than any other form of the papular eruption, and the innumerable small papule charac- teristic of it often present a shining appearance, which, together with the copper colour, gives the disease a very remarkable appearance. TUBERCULAR SYPHILITIC ERUPTION. This is assuredly the most frequent of all the vene- real eruptions. Although it may appear on any part of the body, it attacks the face, the nose, the ears, the eyebrows, and the scalp, much more frequently than any other of the class of eruptions under con- sideration. The elementary lesions of this and the preceding species are, in point of fact, closely allied. The tubercle is, in most instances, nothing more than the morbid development or hypertrophy of the ele- ments of a papule, and the form and size of this