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Title: 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
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, George Henry, 1846-1937
Subjects: Dermatology
Publisher: Philadelphia Lippincott
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ng of the glands, slight fever and loss of sleep.When the application of the drug is discontinued the bright scarlethue of the inflamed skin gradually changes to an Indian red tint,in a few days more or less desquamation occurs and soon a skinof normal whiteness is left. Upon the face chrysarobin should be used with great caution,if at all. owing to the danger of exciting a severe conjunftivitis. Evenwhen used elsewhere the patient should be cautioned against rub-bing the eyes while any ointment remains upon the fingers. Uponthe scalp the remedy is usually objeftionable on account of the pur-plish color of the hair which is apt to result from its continued use. The plate shows all that is left of numerous discs of psoriasisafter the use of a chrysarobin ointment. Instead of red or scalyspots upon a white background of normal skin, the reverse is seen.The infiltrated discs have become smooth and white and present astrong contrast with the red staining of the surrounding skin. PLATE XV,
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C>pvrii;Iit. 1900, by G. H. Fo DERMATITIS VENENATA. (EX USU CHRYSAROBINI.j PLATE XVI.DERMATITIS VENENATA DERMATITIS VENENATA Among the various forms of dermatitis resulting from the actionupon the skin of toxic agents, whether animal, vegetable or chemical,the poison ivy eruption is one of the most common. It usually appears as a vesicular dermatitis upon the backs ofthe hands and rapidly extends upon the forearms. In most cases theface and other parts touched by the hands are simultaneously affefted. In the illustration the vesicles are seen to be both isolated andaggregated. They spring from a highly inflamed base and vary greatlyin size. Their coalescence has produced bulhe. which are both oflinear and irregular form. Although in this particular case the der-matitis followed the handling of leaves of the Rhus toxicodendron, itmust be borne in mind that an eruption identical in appearance maysometimes appear upon the hands, forearms and face of those whohave handled nothing poiso

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