. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. pical so-calledanatomical tubercle is indurated and pigmented verrucous papule or tubercle veryslowly forms, which may become fissured at oneor more points. The characteristic lesion isthe thickened, indolent, more or less pigmentedand fissured, split-pea to bean-sized wart,usually single, found on the finger of theanatomist. In other cases grave symptoms result, eitherin the involvement of the deeper tissues (sub-cutaneous, thecal, tendinous, periosteal), or inthe production of erysipelas, pyemi
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners. pical so-calledanatomical tubercle is indurated and pigmented verrucous papule or tubercle veryslowly forms, which may become fissured at oneor more points. The characteristic lesion isthe thickened, indolent, more or less pigmentedand fissured, split-pea to bean-sized wart,usually single, found on the finger of theanatomist. In other cases grave symptoms result, eitherin the involvement of the deeper tissues (sub-cutaneous, thecal, tendinous, periosteal), or inthe production of erysipelas, pyemia, septice- „ XT . r J r -!• . -, -, r Verruca Necrogenica. Model. mia, or gangrene, burgeons divide these cases Guys Mus. 19350. into mild and acute varieties, according to the symptoms exhibited. The records of the medical profession in almostevery one of the large cities of this country contain the names of oneor more of its eminent representatives whose lives have been sacrificedin this manner. In a few instances the local process has been fol-lowed by generalized [B] Tuberculosis Verrucosa Cutis [Riehl and Paltauf]. (Lupus Sclerosus, Lupus Sclereux.) The lesions of this form of cutaneous tuberculosis occur often onthe flexor aspect of the lower forearm, but also iu other regions of thebody, such as the integument covering the inner malleolus. Theplaques are distinctly circumscribed, ovoid in outline, and usuallycovered with minute pustules, fine vegetations, and thin crusts. Acharacteristic violaceous halo commonly surrounds the whole. Inthese cases the papillary layer of the skin is chiefly involved. Guys Hospital Reports, third series, vol. viii. p. 263. 572 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. LC] Other Cutaneous Tuberculoses. An interesting series of morbid phenomena is presented when, forspecial reasons (proximity of tuberculoses of organs other than theskin, accidents of position and exposure, influences that escape detec-tion), sites of tuberculous infection, wh
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