. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. n the lids they may interfere with vision by the production ofptosis. To the touch they may be felt as softish, somewhat elastic,firm, or lobulated masses, though at times nothing but a double foldof skin can be perceived, or a cordlike contained body. They are often congenital. When closely set together upon the skin,and of small size and pendulous, the features of the disease are char-acteristic. Schwimmer distinguishes between these lesions, usually congenital(termed by him, soft fibroma), and the den
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. n the lids they may interfere with vision by the production ofptosis. To the touch they may be felt as softish, somewhat elastic,firm, or lobulated masses, though at times nothing but a double foldof skin can be perceived, or a cordlike contained body. They are often congenital. When closely set together upon the skin,and of small size and pendulous, the features of the disease are char-acteristic. Schwimmer distinguishes between these lesions, usually congenital(termed by him, soft fibroma), and the dense tumors of similar anatom-ical features (termed by him, firm, or hard, fibromas). The latter arecircumscribed, deeply seated, very slow of development, and apt toinduce changes in the tissues which surround them. They mayundergo fatty degeneration, or ossification, or calcification. Dr. E. W. Taylor, of New York,1 in an interesting paper on themode of development and course of fibroma, and its relations to acro- 1 Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases, Feb. 1887. PLATE VII. Multiple Fibroma of the Back. [From a photograph of one of the authors patients. NEW-GROWTHS. 531 chordon and other cutaneous offshoots, describes the first appearance ofthe disease as a roundish spot over which the skin is uplifted. It isof a light-pinkish color. The tumor is soft and suggests to the toucha thinning of the derma beneath. By firm pressure over such lesionswhen they have in size attained about half an inch in diameter, theymay be slowly pushed downward into the skin, and the sensation isproduced to the touch of a foramen in the derma. Fusion between Fig. 63.
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