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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    patches upon the skin, f a red, erysipelatous state of the face and scalp, with osdematous swelling of the eyelids,’ and, in the majority of instances, it was attended with diarrhoea. This was the first indication of what subsequently appeared to he scurvy.”1 In 1846 the weather was inclement, the potato crop failed completely, famine spread over the island, and all the affections we have noted as becoming manifest in 1845 became aggravated, and almost universal. In 1847 the potato crop failed extensively, and the evils brought about by the two pre- ceding years of famine culminated. The dis- tress was horrible. Starvation had, in several districts, paralysed the mental and physical energies of the people, and they appeared “ stupefied, even to the level of the brute creation,” and the dogs, “poor and piteous,” had ceased to bark. Disease was in every hovel, and too often disease was accompanied by death. The culture of the land, in many places, was entirely neglected, and the face of the country reflected, in its utter desolation, the misery of the people. The epizootics al-