Eczema with an analysis of eight thousand cases of the disease / by L. Duncan Bulkley.

  • Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, 1845-1928.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Eczema with an analysis of eight thousand cases of the disease / by L. Duncan Bulkley. 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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    twofold cause, namely: (i) a predisposing, internal, or general, and (2) an exciting or local cause of the particular eruption at a special time. 3. Eczema in many of its features resembles the accepted constitutional diseases more than it does those recognized as local. 4. The skin lesions of eczema, as also its micro- scopical characters, more nearly resemble those of the general and constitutional diseases affecting the skin than those of purely local affections. 5. Eczema is very properly likened to catarrh of the mucous membranes; it is very probable that some proportion of the mucous attacks, known as catarrh, are eczema of this tissue. 6. Eczema resembles gout and rheumatism in certain respects, and is dependent upon a somewhat similar, although as yet unknown, constitutional cause; many of the skin lesions, as ordinarily ob- served, must be looked upon as the local results of the disease, removable by local means. 7. There as yet exists no microscopical or physio- logical proof that eczema is the sole result of local cell disorder, either congenital or acquired ; but from our present knowledge of independent cell activity and from the intimate connection between nerve elements and the cells composing the skin, it is highly probable that cell action and nerve influ- ence are important factors in eczema. 8. Local causes may at times play a very im-