Author: J. M. H. Macleod

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Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9781331960607

Excerpt from The British Journal of Dermatology, Vol. 19: January-December, 1907 He cannot give a very reliable account of its onset, but he said that he believes it came on the front of the chest first, and shortly afterwards on the other places (forehead and upper extremity). He also thinks that the nodules came out all together, not in crops or successively, that the whole thing started almost at once, but gradually became more pronounced and prominent. There has been no increase, at any rate for the past year. His attention was not drawn to the eruption by any subjective symptoms; he had no discomfort, pain, or itching. The only subjective symptoms which he has had, and which appear to be trifling, are that on a cold day the pressure of his hat causes a little soreness, hardly amounting to pain, and that in the winter on a cold morning the cold water of his bath occasions some smarting pain in the skin of the front of the chest; sea bathing has the same effect. Pressure on the spots causes no discomfort. The eruption is present on the left side of the forehead, the front of the upper part of the thorax, the left shoulder, arm, and forearm, in the skin over the left scapula, and very slightly over the right shoulder and right scapula. Forehead. - The area involved is about 2 inches in breadth; it extends from the left eyebrow to the border of the hair. It is bounded on the right side by the central line of the forehead; the lesions do not reach all along quite to this central line, but none transgress it. The inner half of this area is the most prominent. It consists of pale-red nodules, mostly about 4 mm. in diameter, some coalescing with each other to form conglomerate nodules. The nodules are very firm to the touch; where they are massed the skin is much thickened. This tract narrows towards the upper part, and close to the hair it terminates in a single nodule, 4 mm. in diameter, which forms, as it were, the apex of this prominent tract. The outer half of the forehead area consists of scattered nodules, mostly of the colour of the skin; in places between these nodules the skin surface is uneven, as though growth was commencing beneath the surface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.