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

  • Jordan, Henry J.
Date:
1860
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    of those parts of the skin which are exposed to the light and air—a state which may he said to he an aggravated form of psoriasis; but the cutaneous affection is but a small part of the malady. A state of ill health not remotely akin to scurvy, and a state of mental inaction beginning in moping, and ending often in fatuousness, are indeed the more prominent characteristics of this disease. Pellagra is almost always fatal, if left to itself—fatal in from four to five years. As was shown in the introduction, the cir- cumstances in which pellagra originates are very similar to those which gave birth to the leprosy of the middle ages; and there is reason to believe that pellagra is a form of leprosy, if the term leprosy he used in the same wide sense as that in which it was used by the Jewish lawgiver. The remedies for pellagra will be the same as those which apply to aggravated cases of psoriasis, and to the other forms of leprosy. 5. Ichthyosis. Syn. Fish-skin disease. Germ. jF(sci)scf)uppen--ausscf|[ag. In this affection, the skin is sallow, dry, and