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acne Aggravation appearance biting bleed easily blisters blood bluish boils burning and itching carb Carbo veg chilblains chronic cold color crusts dark red desquamation Diagnosis discharge disease ecchymosis eczema eruption erysipelas erythema Etiology exudation face fetid fingers frequently gangrene genitals glands gouty hair heat hemorrhages herpes herpes zoster ichorous impetigo inflammation intertrigo irritable itching itching and burning Kali lesions malignant mammæ measles moist nettle rash night nose offensive oozing pains pale papules patches patients pemphigus perspiration Phos pimples pricking profuse pruritus Psor psoriasis purpura pustular pustules remedy rheumatic Rhus Rhus tox rubbing scalp scaly scarlatina scarlet fever scratching sensitive to touch skin small-pox sore spots stinging Subjective Sulph suppuration surface sweat swelling swollen sycotic symptoms syphilitic thick thin tinea tion tissue tubercular ulcers urine urticaria usually vesicles vesicular violent itching warm warmth warts watery whole body worse yellow yellowish
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Page 135 - ACNE* BY EDWARD H. POND, MD Pittsburg, Pa. ACNE is an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands of the skin and of the follicles of the lanugo hairs attached to them ; it appears in a form of papules, tubercles, pustules or abscesses ; and in cases of severe inflammation and suppuration often leads to the destruction of the glands with the resulting scar. On account of its proneness to attack the face and neck...
Page 99 - Adapted to light complexioned people with blue eyes, tall, slim, flat narrow chested, with a family history of tubercular affections; melancholy; despondent; morose; takes cold easily, always chilly; symptoms ever changing, tubercular eruptions with greenish pus; oozing behind the ears fiery red skin with rawness and soreness in folds of the skin; eczema over the entire body, itching worse at night, intense when undressing (Nat-mur, Ars, Hep) X-Ray.
Page 316 - Face. Face flushed. Heat and redness of face. Face pale, with heat and chill alternating. Erysipelatous swelling of face. Miliary eruption on face with heat as if it were on fire. Scaly herpes on face and forehead.
Page 309 - ... blisters form, burst, and leave raw surfaces ; in children, blisters of two, three or four inches in diameter ; restlessness ; prostration. II Constantly repeating eruption of blisters, secreting a foul-smelling, gluey matter, forming crusts and healing from centre. ^Pemphigus. • Eczema : vesicles followed by scurfs, then a fresh eruption of vesicles, with burning and itching; attended by thickening of skin and formation of hard, horny scabs. I Pain like that of shingles, without eruption.
Page 304 - Eruption dry, of a shrivelled appearance; in passing hand over skin it feels like brown paper; urine suppressed ; hands and feet burning hot, cannot keep them covered ; restless and sleepless ; tongue dry in centre ; sides coated brown ; throat covered with a diphtheritic deposit of an ash color.
Page 283 - Biting and itching: on head, back and limbs, with chilliness; when becoming warm through day. llPinching and pricking pains on different parts of skin; sometimes apparently in veins. • Eruption: first vesicular, then dry; humid, suppurating; full of deep rhagades; breeding lice; itching violently; intertrigo, raw places readily bleeding. • Eczema on face, genitals, legs, neck and fingers of r. hand; bleeds easily and is covered with thick crusts, with fetid secretion beneath. •Moist, scald...
Page 317 - ... discharge of sanious liquid blood, with a strong tendency to putrescence, tingling in the limbs and great debility, particularly when the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids.
Page 246 - Eruption of vesicles and pustules, from former exuded a clear, watery secretion, from latter a purulent fluid, followed by formation of scales and scabs; this chronic exanthem, which extended almost over whole body, was always exuding and accompanied with tormenting itching. Vesicular eruptions...
Page 273 - ... •Impetiginous eruption upon chin, which had been torn and broken, producing hard crusts, which nearly covered entire surface; some scattering crusts of same upon hands and arms; several large aphthous sores upon inside of lips and upon tongue; constipation; child fretful and feverish ; ichorous secretion of sores had inoculated mother's breast, producing similar sores around nipples. Pemphigus. • Pustular...
Page 289 - ISmall, flat, light red blotches on sexual parts, abdomen, chest and inner side of thighs. v. •Red spots covered with small vesicles of size of millet seed...