Manual of diseases of the skin / from the French of Cazenave and Schedel ; with notes and additions by Thomas H. Burgess.

Date:
1842
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    the skin, or in the whole of the cutaneous envelope, but unattended with any general derangement of the health. Under these eight orders we have arranged the great majority of cutaneous diseases ; we have, however, made a few changes in the classification of the species. Thus, in our opinion, pemphigus and pompholix constitute one and the same disease ; acne is clear- ly not a tubercular affection, so we have placed it under the pustu- lar to which it really belongs. Erysipelas is an exanthematous disease, and scabies a vesicular one ; we have, therefore, transposed them to their respective orders ; the diseases arranged under the seven last orders do not admit of being classed with any of the rest, and, hence, we have thought it right to consider them apart. We have designedly omitted anthrax, burns, cyanosis, and seve- ral other affections which are quite foreign to our subject. The plan of this work did not admit of their being described; and we would, at all events, have been unwilling to encumber it with an account of diseases which, as they are seated in the subcutaneous cellular tissue, are as little adapted for a complete treatise as for a manual of cutaneous diseases. The characteristic symptoms of diseases of the skin may be mixed up together, and we often find many different elementary lesions co-existing, especially in acute cases. They are often attended by general symptoms, particularly those of more or less severe irritation of the air-passages and intestinal canal. But many cutaneous diseases are chronic, and last for months or years without exciting any derangement whatever of the general health. The colour of cutaneous eruptions and their termination may be con- siderably modified by the age or constitution of the patient, the co-existence of internal inflammation, and several other circum- stances connected with the health of the individual. Thus the acces- sion of some febrile disorder often has the effect of mitigating or even dispersing altogether a chronic disease of the skin which may have existed for months ; but when the febrile symptoms disappear, the cutaneous affection returns. In cases of this kind it is said “ that the eruption has gone in—has fallen on some internal organ but the inflammation of the internal parts has existed long before the disappearance of the cutaneous disease, and the latter returns slowly —long after the complete restoration of the internal parts to a