. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners . as no medi-cament is known to be capable, alter ingestion, of relieving thevictim of his local ailment. Of the articles in this category Viertel. f. Derm. u. Syph , Nos. 2 and 3, 1880. KELOID. 273 none will be more often indicated than cod-liver oil, the chaly-beates, the bitters, the preparations of iodine, and possibly phos-phorus. Arsenic and mercury are powerless to prevent theextension of the disease. With these, it is needless to add, adiet of the most generous character is to be supplied, and the
. A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners . as no medi-cament is known to be capable, alter ingestion, of relieving thevictim of his local ailment. Of the articles in this category Viertel. f. Derm. u. Syph , Nos. 2 and 3, 1880. KELOID. 273 none will be more often indicated than cod-liver oil, the chaly-beates, the bitters, the preparations of iodine, and possibly phos-phorus. Arsenic and mercury are powerless to prevent theextension of the disease. With these, it is needless to add, adiet of the most generous character is to be supplied, and therules of hygiene enforced. Keloid. Deriv. Gr. ^i*?. a is a benign cutaneous neoplasm, occurring as one or more elevated,whitish and reddish, firm and elastic nodules, plaques, ridges, radiating strife,or as several of such forms in combination, resembling an hypertrophiedcicatrix. Symptomatology.—Theterm Keloid, first given to this diseaseby Alibert, should be restricted to it exclusively. The symp-toms are,dense, generally elastic, nodules embedded in the corium Fig. Keloid growths. and firmly attached to it. They are generally very slow of evo-lution, and, having ouce attained their full development andassumed one of the several shapes which they affect, usually per-sist for a lifetime. These forms are globular or semi-globular18 274 diseases or THE skin. nodules, buttons, or plaques, with roundish or ovoid outline;linear elevated striae, bands, ridges resembling cords, ribbons, ortapes, in irregular outline and disposition; or combinations oftwo or more of these figures. A common form over the sternum,and in other situations where the development of the growth inevery direction is unimpeded, i9 that of a larger central masswith two or more diminishing and declining prolongationshearing a remote resemblance to the body and claws of a lesions vary in size from a small pea to a large saucer, thelargest including the outlying points of the limbs or ra
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