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acid acne acute affected alopecia alopecia areata amount appear applied atrophy become blood vessels body bullæ cause cells chronic color condition connective tissue consists corium corneous layer corpuscles course crusts cutaneous dermatitis desquamation diagnosis dilated disappear disease duct eczema elevated epidermis epithelioma eruption erysipelas erythema especially Etiology exudation face favus fever formation frequently fungus growth hæmorrhage hair follicles herpes hyperæmia hypertrophy increase infiltration inflammation inflammatory integument irritation itching Kaposi keloid lepra lesions less lichen lupus lymphatic mercury mucous membrane nævus nail nerve normal nutrition occurs ointment pain papillæ papular papules parasite patches patient pemphigus peripheral pigment present prognosis pruritus psoriasis pustular pustules rarely removed rete ringworm scales scalp scar seated sebaceous glands seborrhoea seen sharply limited skin soap sometimes spots spread stage superficial suppuration surface sweat glands symptoms syphilis tinea trichophytina tion treatment tubercles tumors ulceration urticaria usually varying vesicles yellowish
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Page 185 - When the other teeth are affected these very rarely escape, and very often they are malformed when all the others are of fairly good shape. The characteristic malformation of the upper central incisors consists in a dwarfing of the tooth, which is usually both narrow and short, and in the atrophy of its middle lobe. This atrophy leaves a single broad notch (vertical) in the edge of the tooth, and sometimes from this notch a shallow furrow passes upwards on both anterior and posterior surface nearly...
Page 9 - ... on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The sebaceous glands are considered under Histology of the Hair.
Page 251 - outbreak" occurs lasting two or three days. Then the eruption presents more of the character it had in an earlier period of the disease. The feet are also affected, but only in a slight degree, a group of vesicles appearing occasionally here and there. Their appearance is always preceded by a tingling in the part. They appear symmetrically, and often on exactly corresponding parts. There has never been any accompanying eruption on the other parts of the body.
Page 28 - Each nail consists of a root, or part concealed within a fold of skin; a body, or exposed part attached to the surface of the skin; and a free anterior extremity called the edge. The skin below the root and body of the nail is termed the matrix, from its being the part from which the nail is produced.
Page 9 - The free surface of the epidermis is marked by a network of linear furrows of variable size, marking out the surface into a number of spaces of polygonal or lozenge-shaped form. Some of these furrows are large, as opposite the flexures of the joints, and correspond to the folds in the derma produced by their movements. In other situations, as upon the back of the hand, they are exceedingly fine, and intersect one another at various angles; upon the palmar surface of the hand and fingers, and upon...
Page 251 - ... vesicles in the palms of the hands seldom became raised above the level of the skin previous to absorption. Where they appeared in groups they always became raised above the general surface, as also most of the isolated vesicles between the fingers. They were never pointed, but always had a more or less flattened top. After the absorption of the contents or rupture of the vesicles or bullae, a reddened surface (on account of the thinness of the epidermis) was left behind. At no time was there...
Page 445 - ... cutaneous surface, with the exception of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, becomes covered with it.
Page iii - This volume is intended to be the basis of a future, much larger, more pretentious, and more original work.
Page 22 - They are most numerFlG. 14. ous in the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, where they number, according to Krause, 2,685 to 2,736 to the square inch.
Page 250 - I4th), he has been under my care. The eruption had lasted about three weeks when I first saw him. It had commenced on the palms of the hands near the wrist, and spread over the entire palms and between the sides and on the palmar surfaces of the fingers. When I saw him the majority were seated between the fingers. The eruption has changed but little in its mode of appearing and in its course since I first saw him. An outbreak is always preceded by a tingling, burning sensation in the parts, and the...