A manual of syphilis and the venereal diseases, . the skin. It especiallyaffects in both sexes the Chinese, Indians, and negroeswho have contracted the disease. It was once supposedto be rare, but without question is more common thanwas believed. The eruption, if such it may be called, developsat any time after general syphilis is declared, butit is much more common in the earlier months ofthe malady. It is exceedingly indolent, persistingfor months, and even in exceptional cases for years,being in but a slight degree amenable to specific treat-ment. Though thus persisting, the complete involu
A manual of syphilis and the venereal diseases, . the skin. It especiallyaffects in both sexes the Chinese, Indians, and negroeswho have contracted the disease. It was once supposedto be rare, but without question is more common thanwas believed. The eruption, if such it may be called, developsat any time after general syphilis is declared, butit is much more common in the earlier months ofthe malady. It is exceedingly indolent, persistingfor months, and even in exceptional cases for years,being in but a slight degree amenable to specific treat-ment. Though thus persisting, the complete involutionof the affection occurs without ulterior changes in theskin, which, as a result, does not become the seat ofinfiltration, of degeneration, nor of scaling. Indeed, it isprobably more an indirect than a direct result of infec-tion, and is peculiar in that it is decidedly more com-mon not merely in those predisposed by individualcharacteristics to pigment anomalies, but also in theuncleanly and the neglected. Anatomically, it is found Plate
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