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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    LUPUS, The nose, lips, and eyelids, are most fre- quently attacked, and these parts may dis- appear entirely under the ravages of this hideous disease. Around this typical form of the disorder to which the name of lupus exedens (devouring wolf) or noli me tangere is usually given, are ranged other varieties of the disease. The tubercular character may be almost or entirely wanting, and the tendency of the disease may be to destroy or alter the skin very superfi- cially. In some cases the skin seems to disap- pear by absorption rather than by ulceration. These slighter forms are known by the name of lupus non exedens, and they certainly occasion less destruction of the parts, and less deformity, than lupus exedens; but even in lupus non exedens, the substance of the skin disappears, and the depressed scar, red, thin, and crossed by ridges and bands, is a hideous disfigurement. Or the tubercular character of lupus may be more marked, and instead of ulcerating, the tubercles may tend simply to increase of size. This variety is known as L. non exedens ser- piginosus. In this latter case, some tu- bercles are not unfrequently met with upon 13