. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. 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 isp
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. 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. Multiple fibromata,. (Gross Large single fibroma. (From a photograph.) the new growth and the skin over it is of early occurrence. Theroundish or oval form of the tumor depends upon the direction of thebundles of the subcutaneous tissue of the part invaded. The tumorsmay undergo involution, but this result is more common when thepatient is under thirty years of age. Dermatolysis is produced bygreat activity of the growth of one, or fusion of seveial tumors, bywhich a flap of skin is formed. 532 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. The large tumors of the skin of the patient carefully studied byTaylor suggested, when handled, that they contained boiled vermicelli,or a number of thread-worms, and contrasted thus with the firm orsemisolid lesions of older patients affected with fibroma. The softand gelatinous quality of the neoplasm in earlier life is believed to beproportioned to the age of the subject, and this rapid development andsucculency of structure are only conditions of imperfect involution,a
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