. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . ebaceous glands or penetrates between thepapilla? of the derma; or are actual transformations of the glands intocornified amorphous deposits, surrounded by thickened parietes. Theymay be artificially removed ; or be shed spontaneously; or inflame, 870 DISEASES OF THE SKIX suppurate, and result in circumscribed abscesses; or terminate byulceration. Most often they are insidious and slow of development;and may persist for years without producing annoyance or subjectivesensation. They occur on the face, the
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practioners . ebaceous glands or penetrates between thepapilla? of the derma; or are actual transformations of the glands intocornified amorphous deposits, surrounded by thickened parietes. Theymay be artificially removed ; or be shed spontaneously; or inflame, 870 DISEASES OF THE SKIX suppurate, and result in circumscribed abscesses; or terminate byulceration. Most often they are insidious and slow of development;and may persist for years without producing annoyance or subjectivesensation. They occur on the face, the side of the neck, and thenucha; on the penis and scrotum of meu, and the breast and labiaof women; on the trunk ; on the flexor surfaces of the extremities,and the dorsal surfaces of the hands and feet. They are most com-mon in children. In consequence of the depression of the centre ofthe little tumors (which Hutchinson has aptly likened to small pearlbuttons), they may suggest the lesions of variola, and are hencedescribed by French writers under the term, Varioliform Acxe. Fig. Molluscum Epitlieliale. (After Allex.) Hebra, Virchow, and Nicolaysen have reported colossal mollusca,as large as an orauge or a small cocoauut. Microscopical examina-tion of these gigantic lesions demonstrated their identity with thesmaller tumors. Similar smaller bodies have been found interspersedamong epitheliomata. Etiology.—In England, where the disease was first recognized andwhere, according to Hutchinson, it is far more frequent than on thecontinent of Europe, the belief in its contagiousness is quite generallyaccepted. Excellent authorities are, however, divided upon thisquestion. At present, therefore, it can only be definitely stated that MOLLUSCUM EPITHELIALE. 371 the contagiousness of molluscum is not yet established. If contagious,the lesions certainly possess this power of transmission in a feeble andimperfect degree, one much inferior certainly to other lesions recog-nized as c
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