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Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis
Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LUPUS VULGARIS FOLLOWING EXPOSURE TO TUBERCULOUS SPUTA. WILLIAM THOMAS CORLETT, M. D.. L.R.C.P., (London.) Professor of Dermatology in Western Reserve U... more »niversity, Consulting Physician for Diseases of the Skin to Charity Hospital, The City Hospital, etc., Cleveland, Ohio. RS. T. , aged 42, consulted me September 19, 1890, for a disfiguring eruption on the face of several years' duration. She was exceptionally robust, of fine physical development and the mother of three healthy children, the eldest of whom had attained maturity, and excepting the present illness had never been out of health. Further her father and mother came of strong parentage and both lived to old age. There had never been a case of consumption in the family nor other disease worthy of note except an aunt who had what was called a cancer of the breast, which was removed twenty years ago without returning. Ten years ago the patient was in the habit of making frequent visits to a friend afflicted with tuberculosis of the lungs. It was her custom to hold the phthisical friend on her lap, and on more than one occasion remembers having had mucus coughed in her face. Some time within the year, before the tuberculous friend died, the patient noticed a small spot on the upper border of the forehead. It was of a reddish color, at first not raised above the surrounding skin, but in a few months it began to ulcerate, new spots appeared in the vicinity and finally the disease invaded nearly the entire face. When the patient came to me for the first time there were five distinct foci of the disease undergoing ulceration, together with a number of papules and infiltrations of a like nature on different parts of the face. The whole surface was greatly disfigured by the cicatrization resulting therefrom. The...« less