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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    gummy exudations on a cherry-tree, or to candied honey, hut the stinking odonr which proceeds from them—an odour having a not very distant resemblance to valerianic acid, or that of the urine of cats—is incompatible with an idea so cleanly. The most prominent feature of impetigo, as the popular name of humid tetter (common to impetigo and eczema) implies, is a free and continuing oozing of discharge. The pustules and scabs of impetigo may be clustered together in variously formed patches, as in I. figurata, or they may be scattered, as in I. sparsa. Impetigo figurata, which is the most common form, is sometimes called pot - rigo favosa, porrigo larvalis, but these names ought never to be used, for porrigo is a totally distinct affection from impetigo. The names mellitagra, honey-sickness, honey-scab, or crusta lactea, are sometimes given to impetigo. The smallness of the pustules, the continuing copious viscous, stinking discharge, and the thick, stinking, dried, lioney-like scabs are the cha- racteristics of impetigo. In eczema impetigo- nodes, the distinctions are sometimes broken down between eczema and impetigo, but usually we may find, on searching, some of the cha- r r