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.

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1819
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    chiefly seated on the cheeks and forehead, when they occur about the fourth or fifth month, and are smaller, more crowded, and less vivid in their colour, than in the first species. But in children seven or ei<*ht months old, they appear in large irregular patches, on the outside of the hands, arms, and shoulders, and aie hard and close set, so as to give to the whole sur- tace a high red colour. In about a fortnight they begin to fade and exfoliate, and gradually disappear. Sometimes, though rarely, a variety of the S. con- fertus appears on the legs, spreading upwards even to the loins and navel, producing a general redness of the cuticle, (not unlike Intertrigo,) which cracks and separates in large pieces, occasioning much distress to the child. It is liable to recur at short intervals, for the » space of two or three months. The S. confertus requires no specific medical treat- ment, as it appears to be one of the numerous symptoms of irritation arising from dentition, and re- cedes soon after the cutting of the first teeth *. It can only be alleviated by the general treatment pro- per for the state of teething, with great attention to % * Dr. Bisset, a physician of the old school, but a man of observa- tion, notices a circumstance respecting children affected with these eruptions, which I think I have seen confirmed in a few cases. After stating that “ some children are more or less affected with it till they have got all their first teeth, in spite of every endeavour to repress it, and after that period it recedes spontaneously;” he adds, “ but in that case they are apt to have carious teeth after the eruption disappears.” See his Med. Essays and Obs. § xix. p. 274.