. American practice of surgery ; a complete system of the science and art of surgery . XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM(From La Pratique Dermaiologique, Masson et Cie, Editeurs, Paris.) SURGERY OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 385 exposed. In a little girl whom I saw some years ago, and who, as I thought,might be suffering from a light grade of this disease, the affection was on theface, neck, hands and arms, and on the legs. She lived in Arizona, where thesunlight is intense, so intense as ordinarily to cause brow^ning of the skin of thelegs through the stockings. The occurrence of the disease in families would
. American practice of surgery ; a complete system of the science and art of surgery . XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM(From La Pratique Dermaiologique, Masson et Cie, Editeurs, Paris.) SURGERY OF DISEASES OF THE SKIN. 385 exposed. In a little girl whom I saw some years ago, and who, as I thought,might be suffering from a light grade of this disease, the affection was on theface, neck, hands and arms, and on the legs. She lived in Arizona, where thesunlight is intense, so intense as ordinarily to cause brow^ning of the skin of thelegs through the stockings. The occurrence of the disease in families wouldindicate a hereditary affection. The diagnosis is not at all difficult. The
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