A practical compendium of the diseases of the skin ... with cases / by Jonathan Green.

  • Green, Jonathan, 1788?-1864.
Date:
1837
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Credit: A practical compendium of the diseases of the skin ... with cases / by Jonathan Green. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS OF THE SKIN. EXANTHEMATA. The exanthemata, as a class, are acute inflammatory affec- tions of the skin, for the most part accompanied with a con- siderable degree of constitutional disturbance, and character- ized by a diffused redness that disappears for an instant under the pressure of the finger. The natural termination of this order of diseases is in resolution, followed by the desqua- mation of the cuticle. In the slighter forms of the species it includes, the inflammation does not appear to extend beyond the most superficial parts of the cutis vera; in the severer cases, however, it not only implicates the entire thickness of this tissue, but even spreads to the subjacent cellular mem- brane, which is then infiltrated and swollen. Erythema, Erysipelas, Roseola, Rubeola, Scarlatina, and Urticaria, are the diseases that appear with these charac- teristics. Each species of exanthematous affection is distinguished by symptoms in a great measure peculiar to itself. A cer- tain degree of languor, disinclination to food, and feverish sensations usher in their attacks generally, but in one the redness is evenly diffused, in another it is shaded in different degrees, now it appears in patches very irregular in their out- line, and again, in blotches very well defined. A distressing sense of heat and tension, but little actual pain, and some degree of swelling, are particularly observed in erysipelas. Scarlatina is remarkable for its vivid red ; urticaria for the