Manual of diseases of the skin : with an analysis of twenty thousand consecutive cases and a formulary / by L. Duncan Bulkley.

  • Bulkley, Lucius Duncan, 1845-1928.
Date:
1899
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Credit: Manual of diseases of the skin : with an analysis of twenty thousand consecutive cases and a formulary / by L. Duncan Bulkley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    first variety of sweat disorder, namely, hyperidrosis; although sometimes there will be an unnatural odor to the perspiration, without any apparently great increase. The entire body may emit an offensive smell, but more commonly this is confined to certain locations, more particularly the feet, axillae, and genital regions. The same measures which are of value in excessive sweating are generally of service in this condition. 4. Chromidrosis. Synonym: Colored sweating. This is a curious state, which has been described by a number of observers; black, blue, green, yellow, and red sweat have all been recorded. In the axillae and genital region, it is not so very uncom- mon to find a red condition, apparently of the sweat, which, however, is due to a micro-organism on the hair; the hairs are in a condition of leptothrix, or covered with an irregular concretion, containing the bacterium. Another form of red sweat is that where blood has exuded and mingled with the secretion; this will be described later, among hemorrhages, zshcematidrosis. Nothing is known with regard to the etiology, and little with regard to the treatment of chromi- drosis. These cases have usually been observed in nervous and hysterical subjects, generally females, and there is strong reason to believe that in some of the instances deception has been practised.