Kennedy on the diseases of the skin.

  • Kennedy, Donald, 1812-1889.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: Kennedy on the diseases of the skin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    creasing, forming bags filled with a wheyish water. This is produced by an effu- sion of serum under the cuticle or scarf skin, and varying in size from a pea to a fil- bert, and nearly of a rounded form. When the Buelle has attained its growth, the serum becomes thickish and bursts, and is soon covered over with a thin brown crust, which forms before the redness disappears, or else it is covered with very thin and transparent scales. There is another variety in which the skin is in red patches, here and there, from the size of a pea to a ten cent piece, that never contained any serum or water, or if it had it is re-absorbed into the system again, and by rubbing your finger over it you can take off the skin. In some cases, though rare, the Buelle cover the whole body; it then joins and meets the fluid, thickens and becomes humory, and soon the body is covered over with greenish brown crusts. As soon as one crop of these crusts are gone another is forming, in the shape of little blisters ; they usually run their course from four to six months. If you wish to be cured in less time, take a few bottles of Discovery, and apply the Salt Rheum Ointment. RUPIA. The first stages of this are precisely like the Pemphigus. The Buelle is 1 arger and the crusts thicker, and always has the appearance of ulceration when you raise the crust. It is usually located in the legs, sometimes in single crusts, others again in several patches, but the crusts are always separated and distinct. It most frequently attacks people of broken down constitutions. This commences with a blis- ter, filled with fluid, but instead of being clear, like other blisters, the fluid is black. When it breaks it forms a scab, rough and dark colored, which goes on gradually in- creasing ; the outer edges of the crust are inflamed, the skin is raised, and another layer is added to the crust, which becomes quite thick and of a conical form, and has the appearance of the back of an oyster shell. In some cases the crust sticks tight to the sore, in others they come off very easy. Sometimes a new crust forms very quick- ly, at another time a round, unhealthy, ugly looking ulcer is formed, which by physi- cians has been pronounced very hard to heal, particularly in the aged. have had hundreds of these ulcers in my care, and always cured them by six to eight Dottles of the Discovery, and the same of Healing Ointment. I never yet failed in making a permanent and perfect cure of them. Order IV. PUSTITLiE. ECTHYMA, VARIOLA, VACTNIA, ACNE, IMPETIGO, SYCOSIS, TENIA. ECTHYMA.. This is a disease of the skin, characterized by a large round pustule, nearly the siz« of a pea, almost always distinct, and seated on an inflamed base; these are followed by thick, dark colored scabs, which when they fall off leave a dark colored stain on the flesh. They are liable to attack any part of the body, but most generally the neck and shoulders. It frequently comes in successive crops, the top contains matter while the base is hard and red. The matter usually dries up in two or three days, and leaves a thick scab. In some cases the eruption is accompanied with inflammation and severe pain. This disease often attacks hard drinkers, and is very troublesome, but not dangerous.