Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . gical peculiarities and unusual pathology and pathogeny, butfrom the further fact that it is one which, up to the present, has seemedto resist all forms of treatment, even such as are thoroughly radical incharacter. It is seemingly incurable, but this is certainly only due to the factthat the methods hitherto employed are inadequate; and there is no doubtthat some method, very probably simple in character, will be discoveredwhich will solve this therapeutic riddle in a satisfactory manner. Keloid, whose name is derived from the Greek word Kelts, sig
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . gical peculiarities and unusual pathology and pathogeny, butfrom the further fact that it is one which, up to the present, has seemedto resist all forms of treatment, even such as are thoroughly radical incharacter. It is seemingly incurable, but this is certainly only due to the factthat the methods hitherto employed are inadequate; and there is no doubtthat some method, very probably simple in character, will be discoveredwhich will solve this therapeutic riddle in a satisfactory manner. Keloid, whose name is derived from the Greek word Kelts, signifying acrab (to which it has been said to bear a fancied resemblance), is essen-tially a neoplasm of the fibrous variety. The disease occurs in the form oftumor-like formations, which are rather flattened, and which may or may nothave narrow prolongations. The lesions occur about the chest and backfor the most part, although the arms, legs and face may also be color is usually not so dark as that of the surrounding noimal in-. 3 426 Original Articles. tegument, and here and there upon the surface there may be observed fineblood vessels ramifying in a somewhat stellate form. This latter, how-ever, is not an invariable accompaniment and is frequently absent. To thefeel the lesions of keloid have a sort of doughy resistance, which, whilstit is perhaps firmer than that offered by a lipoma, is still not as marked asthat offered by a fibroma. It is something very difficult to define, and yetwhen once it has been felt it is never forgotten and is easily recognizedwhen felt again. The integument covering the keloidal tumor is smooth,sometimes tense and glistening, and not very freely movable or evenattached. Before proceeding further with the general characteristics of keloid itmay not be inopportune to give the history of a case of the spontaneousvariety which I had occasion to observe some few years ago. S. C, amulatto, aged 31, and a musician by occupation, gave a goo
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