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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    trouble; in certain rare cases the purulent infection seems to go further, and cutaneous abscesses occur elsewhere. In some instances a more superficial pustular eruption appears, impetigo contagiosa, which may then be communicated to others. Other than the above-mentioned states, disease cannot be communicated by vaccination. Eczema, or even psoriasis, may be excited in one predisposed thereto, but they cannot be communicated from one person to another by this means, nor is it proved that any disease except syphilis can be thus trans- ferred. In regard to the vaccination of persons suffering from diseases of the skin, it may be stated that if carefully done, and if the sore is properly guarded afterwards, little if any harm can result; as a rule'it is not well to vaccinate one suffering acutely from eczema, but in a sub-acute or chronic stage it may be successfully practised without influencing the dis- ease prejudicially. In those with irritable skins it is always well to employ the recently introduced vac- cination shields, to prevent undue violence being done to the pock.