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

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Skin diseases and their remedies / by Robert J. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ itch” implies, they are attended with a good deal of local itching; but they are unattended by any kind of constitutional disturbance. Scabies is certainly contagious. Any part of the body may be affected, but the parts most commonly affected are the spaces between the fingers. The face almost invari- able escapes, and the reason of this is supposed to be found in the more frequent and careful washings of this part. The time occupied in the development of this disorder varies in dif- ferent individuals, and at different seasons; being shortest in the case or place where the skin is most delicate, and the weather most genial. The limits of variation would seem to be from four to twenty days. The itching is greatly increased by warmth, as by the warmth of the bed, and by all stimulating food and drink. The immediate cause of scabies is a minute insect—the acarus scabei, which lodges in a burrow communicating with the vesicle, but not in the vesicle itself. Its locality is in- dicated by a white spot, about two lines dis- tant from the edge of the vesicle, and from this spot it may easily be dislodged by a