Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion, is generally the result of inattention to cleanliness. H. zoster, or zona, or shingles (apparently from cingulum, a girdle), is a curi- ous aud by no means uncommon variety of the disease, in which' the eruption i3 usually arranged as a belt half round the body. It is a curious and unaccountable fact, that shingles occur almost invariably on the right side. In some rare instances the eruption may go on extending until it makes the complete circle of the trunk, but this rarely happens; at any rate, there is no foundation for the idea, which is as old as the days of Pliny, that the disease is fatal when it thus surrounds the body. Shingles are not unfrequently preceded by severe neuralgic pains in the part, and these pains are apt to remain for some time after the eruption has disappeared; but, as a rule, there is little feverishness, either precursory or attendant. II. circinatus is a very common variety. It is an inflamed red ring, with the characteristic vesicles upon it. It usually affects the face and neck, and upper part of the body generally. H. iris is a very rare variety. It consists of red central patches of herpetic eruption, each patch being surrounded with