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Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases
Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases 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: o Tj Cutaneous And Venereal Diseases. VOL. III. MARCH, 1885. No. 3. TWO CASES OF CHANCRE OF THE LIP. CHAS. W. ALLEN, M.D., New York. ALTHOUGH, co... more »mparatively speaking, the initial lesion of syphilis is rarely found occupying the lip, it was recently my fortune to see two cases iu one afternoon, at the University Dispensary, io-'' which the chancre was thus situated. Chancroid does not appear to be often seen in this location, but of the extra-genital true chancres, that of the lip occupies a prominent place, numerically as well as otherwise. Fournier found twenty-six extra-genital chancres in a series of four hundred and seventy-one infecting sores observed by him. Nearly half of these were located on the lips. Of the extra-genital chancres recently reported in this country, the majority appear to have been situated in the region of the mouth. Van Harlingen, of Philadelphia, published in the Medical Times, of Nov. 1, 1884, ten cases which had occurred in his practice, whieh is not a venereal one, from 1873 to 1883. Six of these we find were located on the lip, three of them having resulted from bites. In October, 1883, Bulkley published two cases of chancre of the lip, chosen from a large number or similar cases met with in his practice. Having been Dr. Bulkley's assistant during the past two years at the New York Hospital, I know that extra-genital chancres are not rarely met with at his clinic. In the Journal Of Cutaneous And Venereal Diseases of November, 1884, we find a resume of Taylor's interesting article on chancre of the tonsil, three cases of which had fallen under his observation. The infecting chancre may occur on almost any region of the body. I have met with it on the breast, behind the ear, on the hand, the finger, the lip, and the che...« less