The Project Gutenberg eBook, Essentials of Diseases of the Skin, by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
Title: Essentials of Diseases of the Skin
Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Author: Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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SAUNDERS' QUESTION-COMPENDS. No. 11.
ESSENTIALS
OF
DISEASES OF THE SKIN
INCLUDING THE
SYPHILODERMATA
ARRANGED IN THE FORM OF
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PREPARED ESPECIALLY FOR
STUDENTS OF MEDICINE
BY
HENRY W. STELWAGON, M.D., PH.D.
Professor of Dermatology in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Dermatologist to the Howard and Philadelphia Hospitals, etc.
SEVENTH EDITION, THOROUGHLY REVISED
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1909
Set up, electrotyped, printed, 1890. Reprinted July, 1891.
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PREFACE TO SEVENTH EDITION.
In the present—seventh—edition the subject matter, especially as regards the practical part, has been gone over carefully and the necessary corrections and additions made. Nineteen new illustrations have been added, a few of the old ones being eliminated. It is hoped that the continued demand for this compend means a widening interest in the study of diseases of the skin, sufficiently keen as to lead to the desire for a still greater knowledge.
H.W.S.
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
Much of the present volume is, in a measure, the outcome of a thorough revision, remodelling and simplification of the various articles contributed by the author to Pepper's System of Medicine, Buck's Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, and Keating's Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children. Moreover, in the endeavor to present the subject as tersely and briefly as compatible with clear understanding, the several standard treatises on diseases of the skin by Tilbury Fox, Duhring, Hyde, Robinson, Anderson, and Crocker, have been freely consulted, that of the last-named author suggesting the pictorial presentation of the “Anatomy of the Skin.” The space allotted to each disease has been based upon relative importance. As to treatment, the best and approved methods only—those which are founded upon the aggregate experience of dermatologists—are referred to.
For general information a statistical table from the Transactions of the American Dermatological Association is appended.
H.W.S.
CONTENTS.
PAGE Anatomy of the Skin 17 The Epidermis 18 The Blood-vessels 19 The Nervous and Vascular Papillæ 20 The Hair and Hair-follicle 21 Symptomatology 22 Primary Lesions 22 Secondary Lesions 23 Distribution and Configuration 24 Relative Frequency 26 Contagiousness 27 Rapidity of Cure 27 Ointment Bases 27