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: not inaptly compared to ' chamois-leather.' The most common seat of the disease is the eyelida, spreading from the inner canthus; but it is also met with in various parts of the body, and is not even confined to the cutaneous tissues. The disease has a tendency to affect the skin symmetrically, and is much more common in adults than in children; indeed, in the laminated form it is very rare in children; in the tuberculated variety it is, however, occasionally met with. The disease is more common in women than in men; and in about half the cases recorded, it has been associated with jaundice. The causes of the malady are unknown. . Xanthoma, in both its forms, consists of fibrous tissue growths infiltrated with fat globules; there is a deposition of fat in and around the fibrous tissue cells, rather than a true fatty degeneration. It is this fat which gives rise to the yellow colour. The patches have no tendency to become inflamed or to ulcerate. The disease can only be cured by removing the patch; this, of course, leaves a scar, and the advisability of such a proceeding will depend on the size and position of the part affected. DISEASES OF THE NAILS. The Nails are liable to be attacked by the following diseases: (1) Onychia, or an inflammation of the nail and its matrix, which is generally of syphilitic origin. (2) Psoriasis. (3) Eczema, chiefly of the pustular form. (4) Favus. (5) Tinea tonsurans. Syphilitic Onychia, is met with in two varieties, one of which is subacute, and is seen most commonly in children under a year old; it is attended with pain, red- DISEASES OF THE NAILS. 9 ness, a discharge of pus around the nail, and more or less, ulceration of the matrix, which is followed by a temporary loss of the nail. The treatment consists in the internal admini...

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