Descriptive catalogue of the dermatological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Erasmus Wilson.

  • Wilson, Erasmus, Sir, 1809-1884.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the dermatological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The Dermatological Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England consists of models, casts in wax and plaster, drawings, photographs, engravings, and preparations. The order which is adopted for their arrangement is partly patho- logical and partly physiological. Under the first of these heads have been grouped:—diseases of common inflammation, of blood-poisons, and of constitutional tendency or diathesis; and, under the last, diseases affecting the functions of nutrition, of innervation, and of pigmentation, together with diseases of the epithelium, of the hair, and of the cutaneous glandular system., I. The diseases comprehended under the head of common inf am- niation constitute the first five groups of the series ; for example:— 1, eczematous; 2, erythematous; 3, phlyctenous; 4, furunculous ; and 5, traumatic. II. The diseases occasioned by blood-poisons are included in the next three groups, namely:—6, exanthematous ; 7, syphilous ; and 8, elephantous. III. The diseases of diathesis also occupy three groups :—9, leprous; 10, strumous; and 11, carcinomatous. IV. Diseases of function comprise another three groups, namely:— 12, nutritive; 13, neurotic; and 14, chromatopathic.