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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    drenched by rain, &c. Some were uncon- scious, others dying; two died during the night.”1 I. We propose, first, to recount the chief points connected with the history of chronic skin dis- eases in Europe. This portion alone of the records of these affections can, perhaps, be clearly set forth, and it is the most instructive; for, from it, we learn somewhat concerning the causes of skin diseases; and this is what we principally seek to ascertain from history. We take up our story in the first century of the Christian era. Pliny, the naturalist, wrote of his time, that “The face of man has recently been sensible of new forms of disease, unknown in ancient times, not only to Italy, but to almost tliewhole of Europe. Still, however, they have not as yet extended to the whole of Italy, nor have they made any great inroads in Illyricum, Gaul, or Spain, or, indeed, any other parts, to so great an extent as in Rome and its environs. Though unattended with pain, and not dangerous to life, 1 Dr. Curran, in ‘Freeman’s Journal.’ Irish Census, 1851, pi. 6, vol. i, p. 297.