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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    affection. Bardolf’s nose, which was likened to Althaea’s firebrand, and the red probosces now and then met with in old topers and others, are instances of this affection. Sycosis, or mentagra, is acne developed in the region of the beard, whiskers, or eyebrows. This variety is attended with more local heat and irritation, and with a greater disposition to suppuration, in consequence apparently of the irritation produced by shaving and brush- ing. Falling off of the hair is now and then a consequence of sycosis; but it is an error to suppose, as has been done by several writers, that sycosis is a porriginous affection. A cryp- togamic plant, called mentagraphyte, and ana- logous to that which is met with in porrigo, has been said to exist in some forms of sycosis, and these forms, moreover, have been repre- sented as contagious; but these observations are contradicted by later and more careful in- quiries. Acne may be regarded as a transitional form between pustular and tubercular affections of the skin; but the characters of acne are cer- tainly much nearer to those of the latter class. Thus, the hardened base always predominates