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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    infants, and the sole distinction of P. solitarius is in the fact, that the eruption consists of one solitary bleb. The P. contagiosus of Willan is now allowed to differ from true pemphigus— an accidental occurrence in certain contagious and epidemic maladies. The blisters which occur not unfrequently in erysipelas may easily he distinguished from the blebs of pemphigus by the serious febrile disturbance accompanying them, and by the swollen, red, and painful skin under and be- tween the blisters. In herpes, the largest vesicles—such as are occasionally formed by the confluence of several in one (as in herpes phlyctenodes)—are small, when compared with the blebs of pemphigus; in herpes, also, there is always a considerable degree of inflamma- tion in the subjacent and surrounding skin. In ecthyma, it sometimes happens that the cuticle may be raised into a bleb by the coalescence of several pustules, but in this case the contained fluid is, what it never is in pemphigus, true pus ] and there are also othei signs of distinction, of which more will be said presently. The condition of the patient, in the majority