Volume 2

The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin / by Erasmus Wilson.

Date:
1864-1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The student's book of cutaneous medicine and diseases of the skin / by Erasmus Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    13. Zymotic affections, 14. Syphilitic affections, 15. Leprous affections. A sixth group is composed of diseases of the epidermis, for example :— 16. Pigmentary affections, 17. Phytodermic affections, 18. Ungual affections. A seventh group includes the diseases of the follicles of the skin and their dependencies, namely :— 19. Diseases of the hair system, 20. Diseases of the sebiparous system, 21. Diseases of the sudoriparous system. While as an eighth group, but one very indispensable, there remain only diseases induced by injury, namely:— 22. Traumatic affections. Thus it may be shown that, although the individual groups are numerous, they admit of being collected under eight heads, as follows :— 1. Diseases of the general structure of the derma, 2. Diseases of the special structure of the derma, 3. Diseases of development, nutrition, and growth, 4. Diseases of diathesis, 5. Diseases resulting from blood-poison, 6. Diseases of the epidermis, 7. Diseases of the follicular apparatus, 8. Diseases induced by injury. And the eight groups might, upon a physiological basis, be further reduced to half that number, as follows :—