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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    Professor Hebra, of Vienna, has still more re- cently endeavoured to form an arrangement of diseases of the skin, having for its basis the tissues in which they are developed, instead of their external forms; and Rosenbaum and Fiichs have, each in a different manner, contributed towards placing this branch of medicine in a position more in accordance with the present state of science than heretofore. The latter inculcates the necessity of not viewing these diseases as a separate class in the nosological system, and graphically describes the important part that the entire organism takes in the pathological act which manifests itself, in some sort, upon the skin; although he has overlooked the réle which the different con- stituent parts of the skin play in the production of the various forms of disease. I am indebted for the greater part of the informa- tion contained in this volume to the Hospital of St. Louis, to Biett, and particularly to M. Cazenave, who so ably fills the place of his distinguished pre- ceptor. To the latter I am also indebted for three of the plates which accompany this work; the originals being the most perfect delineations of the diseases they are intended to represent that I have yet seen. Indeed, the plates of M. Cazenave, as faithful tran-