A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases : according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment / by Thomas Bateman.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases : according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise view of the diagnostic symptoms and the method of treatment / by Thomas Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    begun by Dr. Willan, I have purchased the copy-right of that work, together with the drawings and engravings procured by him, and have now brought that series to a conclusion. It remains for me to say a few words respecting the inode in which this has been accomplished. The first four Orders, Papula, Squama, Exanthemata, and Bulla, have been illustrated by the reprinting of Dr. Wiliam's engravings, improved by Mr. Stewart, with the following ex- ceptions. Plate XII, representing the Psoriasis gyrata, was re-engraved. In Plate XIII, which is new, a very accurate portrait of P. inveterata is substituted for Dr. Willan’s confused and indistinct representation of that disease; and another variety of P. diffusa is superadded. Plates XVIII and XXX are also new: the former, exhibiting the disease Ich- thyosis when it affects the face; and the latter, a variety of Purpura unnoticed by Dr. Willan. The second figure was added to Plate XXXII, from a drawing left by Dr. Willan, illustrating a species of Erythema, which he had omitted to represent. With Plate XXXIV the new series of engravings commences; and the superiority of exe- cution by the able hand of Mr. Stewart will be very evident through the remainder of the series, with the exception of Plates XLVIII, LX III, LXVII, and LXIX, which were already rather coarsely en- graved by another artist for Dr. Willan. I think it but justice to Mr. Stewart to point out this circumstance. With the exception of the representations of Impetigo, Porrigo, Ecthyma cachecticum, Varicella (P. XLVI), Herpes praputialis, Rupia, Eczema impetiginodes, <§• mer- curiale, the carbuncle of the plague, Vitiligo, Molluscum contagiosum, Sycosis barba, and Elephantiasis, all the new engravings were made from drawings found in Dr. Wiliam's collection, with their names written by his own hand, and obviously intended to illustrate his work, had he