. Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics. PLATE VITILIGO The backs of the hands are the most frequent site of vitiligo,and in many cases the affection is confined to this locality. In othercases the white spots appear upon the face and neck as well, and notinfrequently are found upon the trunk and extremities. In the negrorace the affection sometimes increases until the greater portion of theskin becomes white. In this patient, a man
. Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics. PLATE VITILIGO The backs of the hands are the most frequent site of vitiligo,and in many cases the affection is confined to this locality. In othercases the white spots appear upon the face and neck as well, and notinfrequently are found upon the trunk and extremities. In the negrorace the affection sometimes increases until the greater portion of theskin becomes white. In this patient, a man of nearly seventy years, the patches hadexisted for a long time and shown little tendency to increase in sizeor to appear elsewhere. As is usual, the skin around the white patcheshad assumed a slightly darker hue and. as the patient was naturallyof a dark complexion and the photograph was taken in the summertime, when the hands were tanned through exposure to the sun, thecontrast was exceptionally well marked. The patient suffered no discomfort whatever from the spotsand no treatment was employed. In faft, there is little that can bedone in such a case beyond lessening the intense
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