Pellagra : history, distribution, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, etiology / by Stewart R. Roberts.

  • Roberts, Stewart Ralph, 1878-1941.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Pellagra : history, distribution, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, etiology / by Stewart R. Roberts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    occurs this sentence, and, taken with the statemert of Fox, the problem of the skin in pellagra will become easy: Within two weeks after the operation these patches increased in extent, and there was a condition resembling in places a dry eczema and in others an erythema. Here is the clue to the whole matter. The pellagrous skin is dimorphous. It is a dermatitis, which is called also the eruption, the erythema, or the pellagrous exanthe::i. It is also a dermotagra, or a rough skin, which is called the dry Fig. 19.—Dermatitis on hands. A clear band of skin is shown on left hand where ring was continually worn, and a darker band is shown on ring finger of right hand where ring was occasionally worn, indicating the influence of light. (Courtesy of Dr. C. C. Bass.) eczema or branny skin of pellagra, or the eczematoid condition of the skin in pellagra. With this idea of a double affection of the skin in pellagra, I think we can trace the origin of some of the early synonyms of the disease. In Spain it was called mal de la rosa, named from the rose-red inflammation of the hand. In Italy among the common people originated the pellis agra, or rough skin, because the Italians named it from the roughness so markedly apparent above and around the dermatitis and on the elbow and body, and persisting in some cases on the original der-