A system of practical medicine . Local asphyxia of fingers in Eaynauds disease (Henry). iated patches of skin on the face and on the upper or lower limbs, oreven on the trunk, are now and then seen. Swelling and pain of theaffected parts attend the discoloration. Sensation is blunted. Afterlasting a variable time the asphyxia may gradually disappear, the partsassuming their normal appearance. Occasionally the disease passes on to a deeper stage—the third stage,that of gangrene. Blebs form on the asphyxiated patches. The partsbecome black, cold, and insensible (Fig. 87). Sloughing takes place;
A system of practical medicine . Local asphyxia of fingers in Eaynauds disease (Henry). iated patches of skin on the face and on the upper or lower limbs, oreven on the trunk, are now and then seen. Swelling and pain of theaffected parts attend the discoloration. Sensation is blunted. Afterlasting a variable time the asphyxia may gradually disappear, the partsassuming their normal appearance. Occasionally the disease passes on to a deeper stage—the third stage,that of gangrene. Blebs form on the asphyxiated patches. The partsbecome black, cold, and insensible (Fig. 87). Sloughing takes place; itmay be only of a minute point on the pnlp of one of the fingers or of afinger, or it may be an entire limb. Rapid and extensive gangrenousdestruction of one or more of the extremities is still a further severertype of this disease. Usually, in the severe forms, the disease provesrapidly fatal, although instances are recorded where recovery has fol-lowed the loss of two, and even three, extremities. The disease is not attende
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