Psoriasis in child under four years of age / by H.W. Stelwagon.

  • Stelwagon, Henry W. (Henry Weightman), 1853-1919.
Date:
[1881]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Psoriasis in child under four years of age / by H.W. Stelwagon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PSORIASIS IN CHILD UNDER FOUR YEARS OF AGE. * BY H. W. STELWAGON, M. D., Physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary for Skin Diseases. As is well known, the first attacks of psoriasis occur most frequently at or approaching the time of maturity. Down to the age of ten it is not uncom¬ mon, but below this period it becomes‘very infre¬ quent. Its occurrence in a child of five or six years is extremely rare, and in children under four years but few cases have been reported. The following case came under my care during the early part of last year, and, as the subject was a very young child, it is worth recording: The child, a male, was in its fourth year (lacking three months of being four years old), was well nourished, *fteprinted from the Medical Times, April 23, 1881.