Contributions to the pathology and treatment of eruptive diseases of the skin / [John Moore Neligan].

  • Neligan, J. Moore (John Moore), 1815-1863
Date:
[1849]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Contributions to the pathology and treatment of eruptive diseases of the skin / [John Moore Neligan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1/16
    ContTibutions to the Pathology and Treatment of Emptive Dis¬ eases of the Skin. By J. Moore Neligan, M. D., M. R. I. A., Physician to Jervis-street Hospital, and Lecturer on the Practice of Medicine in the Dublin School of Medicine. I PURPOSE, in a series of short essays, to bring before the pro¬ fession some facts regarding cutaneous diseases, which, in the course of my experience, have forced themselves on my atten¬ tion ; and, at the same time, to offer some observations that have been derived from their treatment, in both hospital and private practice. Of the various affections of the skin, there are none Avhich more obstinately resist remedial measures than the scaly erup¬ tions. Constituted by Willan into a distinct order, and divided by him into four classes, lepra, psoriasis, pityriasis, and icthyosis, this arrangement has been generally adopted; and although the necessity or practical advantage of any subdivision of erup ¬ tions distinctly characterized by the peculiar epidermic secre¬ tion of scales may be doubted, I am very unwilling, as I have already stated in a previous communication in this Journal, to complicate the study of an already difficult subject in practical medicine, by any innovations on what may be termed estab¬ lished principles. Mr. Erasmus Wilson, in his beautiful pic¬ torial work, and also in his volume on diseases of the skin, removes from Willan’s order of squamous eruptions, pityriasis versicolor, and pityriasis nigra, adopting Layer’s nomenclature of chloasma and melasma, and regards them as alterationsva the colour of the skin, accompanied by a foliaceous or mealy des- quamationj and not by the separation of true scales. As, how¬ ever, in both of these forms there is a squamous secretion, dif¬ fering only in degree from the more distinctive separation of scales in the other classes of the order, and as there’does not appear to be any essential difference in their treatment, B pre- B