Pemphigus of the skin and mucous membrane of the mouth, associated with "essential shrinking" and pemphigus of the conjunctivae / by A. Hill Griffith.

  • Morris, Malcolm, Sir, 1849-1924.
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[1889]
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Credit: Pemphigus of the skin and mucous membrane of the mouth, associated with "essential shrinking" and pemphigus of the conjunctivae / by A. Hill Griffith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE BKITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY. APRIL, 1889. PEMPHIGUS OF THE SKIN AND MUCOUS MEM- BRANE OF THE MOUTH, ASSOCIATED WITH '^ESSENTIAL SHRINKING AND PEMPHIGUS OF THE CONJUNCTIVE. BY MALCOLM MOKRIS, F.R.C.S.E., AND H. LESLIE ROBERTS, M.B. Mary G., spinster, aged 60, came as an out-patient to St. Mary's Hospital early in September 1888. Family History.—Both parents are dead. The mother died at the age of 76, of pneumonia; the father at 75 of cancer of lower jaw. There were ten children in all : five died in childhood; the eldest brother died at the age of 41 of consump- tion ; another, a soldier, died abroad, the cause being un- known. There are three sisters remaining. The eldest, aged 71, is described as healthy; the second, aged 68, is not very strong. , • Personal history and that of present disease.—When a child she had small-pox, measles, and cholera. About the age of 21 she suffered from axillary abscesses, which burst. Matter discharged, and healing took place spontaneously. Between the ages of 40 and 50 she received burns upon her legs from her clothes catching fire. Between 50 and 60 had two attacks of rheumatic fever, one in two successive years. She p