Some aspects of infantile syphilis : being the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1896 / by J.A. Coutts.

  • Coutts, J. A., 1909-
Date:
1897
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Credit: Some aspects of infantile syphilis : being the Hunterian lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1896 / by J.A. Coutts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    variety in both infants and elder children. When seen in these last, it differs in no respect either in situation or appearance from that occurring in adults. Although syphilitic roseola is extremely rare, another of the erythematous erup- tions is the commonest of all in the in- herited disease. The following account by Dr. Crocker so graphically describes it that I prefer to give it in his own words : It consists of erythematous patches of various sizes which usually commence on the buttocks and round the anus. They may be well or ill-defined at the edge, bright coppery or yellowish red, tending to coalesce into large sheets of eruption, but generally patchy on the borders. This erythema may extend uniformly on the back and inner side of the legs quite down to the feet, including the soles, which are bright red and peeling. On the front and outer side it is still generally patchy, upwards it often extends to the loins and abdomen, and in a few cases all over the body in patches which coal- esce ; the whole surface is then red and