[A guide to the treatment of diseases of the skin / by T. Hunt].

  • Hunt, Thomas.
Date:
[1859]
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    tion; and its very usual commencement in utero, as well as its very generally passive condition during the whole life of the individual, have led many to regard it rather as a local vascular malformation, than as a disease. Between disease and deformity, however, there is a wide gulf; and the question should not be dismissed without thoughtful consideration. Con- genital diseases deserve, on many accounts, more at- tention than is usually allotted to them; and the universal opinion, not of the vulgar only (as we are prone to suppose), but of probably the whole sex, that mother's marks are actually the results of certain longings or antipathies on the part of the mother, entitles the subject under review to a more careful research than has yet been bestowed upon it. Its practical bearings also are highly important; the more so that they appear to have been misunderstood, the remedies having been hitherto directed (with a zeal which would have done honour to a former age) to local treatment only. I shall endeavour to show that naevus, whether congenital or otherwise, is always a constitutional affection ; that it originally consists of a morbid action which, when congenital, generally ceases spontaneously at birth, but may at any time be renewed: or, if non- congenital, may be originated whenever the state of the system becomes favourable to its development; and that then it can only be controlled by remedies which act on the general system. The following case embodies and illustrates my views. Case 67.—Ncevus Araneus cured by the internal exhibition of arsenic. Sarah G., aged 6, was born without any appearance of