Cases and observations on the molluscum contagiosum of Bateman : with an account of the minute structure of the tumours / by Robert Paterson.

  • Paterson, Robert, 1814-1889.
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[1840?]
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    CASES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THK MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM OF BATEMAN, WITH AN ACCOUNT OP THK MINUTB STRUCTURE OF THE TUMOURS. By ROBERT PATERSON. M. D., &c. Physician to the Leith DLspensary. (From the Edin. Med. and Surg. Journal, No. 148.) The term MoUuscum Avas introduced into cutaneous patlio- logy by Dr Willan, to designate a disease characterized by movable tumours on the skin, little sensible and often elastic to the touch, and not affecting the general health of the patient. Professor Tilesius had undoubtedly described the disease in the case of a beggar at Muhlberg in 1793, but without giving it a name; and we are inclined to think with Dr Jacobovics of Pesth,* that Dr Willan's term molluscum was more probably derived from Pro- fessor Tilesius's description, than, as Alibert and Biett think, from the resemblance of the tubercles to those on the bark of the maple tree.t The disease, however, which we are presently engaged with was not known to Dr Willan, and indeed was not known to Dr Bateman until after the publication of the second edition of his Sy- nopsis, about the year IB 14 or 1815. A patient was sent tome, he says, affected with a singular species of molluscum, which ap- pears to be communicable by contact. The face and neck of this young woman were thickly studded with round prominent tu- bercles of various sizes, from that of a large pin's head to that of a small bean, which were hard, smooth, and shining on their surface, with a slight degree of transparency and nearly of the colour of the ' skin, the tubercles were all sessile, upon a contracted base without Du Molluscum rechcrchcs critiques sur Ics t'ornics la nature, et le traitemcnt, t par Dr Jacobovics de Pcsth. 1840. t Reinliardi visu foeilum corpus tectum est verrucis niollibus sivc molliuchf ct raadidis sive mytmcciis.