Impetigo contagiosa : its clinical features / by Henry W. Stelwagon.

  • Stelwagon, Henry W. (Henry Weightman), 1853-1919.
Date:
[1883]
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Credit: Impetigo contagiosa : its clinical features / by Henry W. Stelwagon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In their main features, my cases have agreed more or less closely with those described by other writers, both in this country and abroad. All observations go to prove that, although the affection is a compara¬ tively simple one, and the eruption usually typical, it at times presents irregular and anomalous characters. Recapitulating, we have a contagious, auto-inoculable eruption, of a vesico-pustular type, superficial in character and but slightly inflam¬ matory, occasionally preceded by slight fever, the lesions varying in size from a pin-head to a dime or larger, always beginning as small vesicles or vesico-pustules, and enlarging by extension of the peripheral wall, with a thin enveloping membrane and a tendency to umbilication, and no inclination to rupture; drying into a thin, granular, wafer-like crust, appearing as if stuck on ; seated usually on the face and hands, not infrequently on the scalp and limbs, and rarely on the trunk; tending towards spontaneous disappearance in about fifteen days; at times lesions appearing, and the disease persisting several weeks or even months; having no influence upon the general health, and usually un¬ accompanied with any subjective symptoms ; and observed mainly in children under ten years of age.