The skin affections of childhood : with special reference to those of more common occurrence and their diagnosis and treatment.

  • Adamson, Horatio George.
Date:
1907
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Credit: The skin affections of childhood : with special reference to those of more common occurrence and their diagnosis and treatment. 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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    the mouth, and on the palms and soles (Fig. 1) ; form and colour of the lesions—that the lesions are as a rule comparatively small (from a quarter of an inch to one inch in diameter) and have sharply circumscribed margins, only forming larger areas by coalescence ; that their colour has a tendency to reddish-brown (or ' copper colour') which is in contrast with the brighter red of other inflammatory eruptions. The affections most likely to be mis- taken for syphilitic erup- tions are simple erythe- mas about the buttocksi impetiginous eruptions, and seborrhceic eczema in the napkin region; while the ulcerative les- ions of the somewhat rare vacciniform derma- titis are not always easily distinguished from those of congenital syphilis. Si'mjjie erythemas OQ,Q,ViV about the convex surfaces of the buttocks, of the inner and posterior parts of thighs, and of the genitals, and often upon the calves and heels, or shoulders and elbows, either as uniformly dusky red shiny areas, or, on the buttocks, thighs, and scrotum as circular or oval flat papules, which becoming excoriated form shallow ulcers. These Fig. 3. Seborrhceic or impeti- ginous dermatitis.