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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    needle. To the naked eye it appears, when thus dislodged, as a small, writhing, white corpuscle; under the microscope all its odious features become more clearly revealed. Scabies presents several varieties. S. papuli- formis and S. purulenta, for instance, are varieties in which the normal characters of the vesicle interblend respectively with those of the pimple and pustule. Scabies, moreover, is often complicated with other eruptions. Scabies may be confounded with eczema, particularly with E. simplex, but more fre- quently still with prurigo and lichen simplex. The vesicles of E. simplex are in clusters, not separate, globular, and scarcely raised above the surface of the skin, not acuminated, and the itching is aggravated into painful smarting by scratching, not relieved; the acarus scabei, also, is wanting, and there is no contagiousness. The papular character of prurigo, and the absence of the vesicle and insect of scabies, will sufficiently distinguish the affections. In prurigo, more- over, the skin is thickened and altered, and the thickest part of the skin, as that of the back and shoulders, and the outer sides of the limbs, is chiefly affected; the itching, also, is