Notes of a case of dermatitis herpetiformis during thirteen years / by Louis A. Duhring.

Duhring, Louis A., 1845-1913.

Date:: [1884]

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Credit: Notes of a case of dermatitis herpetiformis during thirteen years / by Louis A. Duhring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal for November 15, 188f NOTES OF A CASE OF DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS DURING THIRTEEN YEARS. By LOUIS A. DUHRINGf, M. D., Philadelphia, PROFESSOR OF SKIN DISEASES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. The notes here presented, portraying the disease I have named dermatitis herpetiformis, are of such interest that they are given in full, with the view of directing attention to the many and peculiar phases this jemarkable disease may assume. The long period the disease was under obser¬ vation and the extended notes, which were made at the time, give us valuable information on the natural course of the disease—a point always of importance in the study of cutaneous affections: E. H. McK., aged thirty-one, an American, and a painter by occupation, was admitted to the Philadelphia Dispensary for Skin Diseases, Philadelphia, July 6, 1874. He was in impaired health, and had been suffering from the skin disease for which he sought relief since 1871—a period of three years. He was of small frame and spare, and was apparently in a state of ner¬ vous exhaustion, being weak, tremulous, dyspeptic, and despond¬ ent about his condition. He was married, and was temperate in his habits.