Volume 1

A descriptive catalogue of the New Sydenham Society's Atlas of portraits of diseases of the skin / compiled at the request of the Council by Jonathan Hutchinson.

  • Hutchinson, Jonathan, Sir, 1828-1913
Date:
1869-1875
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A descriptive catalogue of the New Sydenham Society's Atlas of portraits of diseases of the skin / compiled at the request of the Council by Jonathan Hutchinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Excepting the portrait of ‘‘psoriasis-lupus,” that of “ eczema impetiginodes,” and those of porrigo on the head and of prurigo on the trunk from lice, our Atlas does not as yet include many portraits which come into this category. Most of them are from cases which an educated observer would recognise at a glance, and respecting the name for which there would be but little room for dispute. We shall, however, have to pourtray in future fasciculi some forms of eruption regarding which, without a history of the case, the correctness of the diamosis mio^ht easily be questioned. For these, inasmuch as the portraits will have to remain two or three years without the letterpress, I venture to bespeak a candid criticism, and to ask that it may be borne in mind that they claim to be accurately faithful, whilst they do not profess to exhibit common cases. J. H. 4, Finsbury Circus; December, 1868. P.b. Although the following pages have been com- piled at the request of the Council, the responsibility for all opinions, &c., rests solely Avith myself.