A practical treatise on the diseases of the skin [electronic resource]: arranged with a view to their constitutional causes and local characters . tance, as those denominated lupus, or the knawing ulcer,a large portion of the cases of which are of scrofulous, or other he-reditary origin, and few or none co-existent vyith an ordinarilyhealthy state of the constitution, it is impossible to take measuresof this kind, and call it less than a mere experiment ; and it isseldom that the skin remains long the seat of serious derange-ment where there is no deviation from health in ivhat we areaccustome
A practical treatise on the diseases of the skin [electronic resource]: arranged with a view to their constitutional causes and local characters . tance, as those denominated lupus, or the knawing ulcer,a large portion of the cases of which are of scrofulous, or other he-reditary origin, and few or none co-existent vyith an ordinarilyhealthy state of the constitution, it is impossible to take measuresof this kind, and call it less than a mere experiment ; and it isseldom that the skin remains long the seat of serious derange-ment where there is no deviation from health in ivhat we areaccustomed to consider more vital organs. I have availed myself largely of the labours of MM. Breschetand Roussel deVauzeme,in the following illustrations of the anatomyof the skin and its functions : indeed, with the exception of the figures11 and 12, it is but fair to repeat, that I have selected them fromthe engravings of these authors ?* An inquiry conducted as theirs* Nouvelles Recherches sur la Structure de la Peau, par M. G. BreschetDocteur eu Medicine, &c. et M. Roussel de Vauzeme. Paris, 1835. Extrait desAnnales des Sciences Oelicl I • • ; ,,? PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 27 has been would have entitled its results to consideration here, evenif it had not passed under the critical ordeal to which it has beensubject in Paris. It was a great desideratum among English practi-tioners to have the true anatomy of the skin fully explained anddemonstrated. More than half which has been written respectingit has been imaginary, and very seldom indeed admitting of proof;but M. Breschet and his confrere seem to have set the question atrest. Looking at the complicated structures here represented, we shouldnaturally expect that a very changeable and varying character ofdiseases of the surface must be generally expected where derange-ment of any one individual function took place. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. Figure 1.—J, the heel viewed from helow, is the subject of this figure. Thel
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