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Title: The British journal of dermatology
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: British Association of Dermatology
Subjects: Dermatology Syphilis
Publisher: London H.K. Lewis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t the eruption is frequently mistaken for a secondary syphilide. In no case have large macules or nodules been seen such as are charac-teristic of urticaria pigmentosa in children, so that clinically the adultform of pigmentary urticaria is at any rate a distinct type. As to whetherit is to be regarded as the same or a separate disease would seem to dependupon the finding or not finding of mast-cells in abundance. Records asto these findings vary : Whitfields case . . No mast-cells. My own case . . Very few mast-cells. Dores case . . . Large numbers of mast-cells. Littles case . . . Enormous increase of mast-cells typical of urticaria pigmentosa.Wallace Beattys case . Closely set mast-cells in cutis.Drummonds case (quoted by Beatty) . Abundance of mast-cells in corium.Kerl states that in the adult type there are no mast-cells. Possibly the presence of mast-cells may depend upon the degree ofurticarial element. VOL. XXXV. British Journal of Dermatology and Syphilis.) IVOL. XXXV, No. 6.
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Elepliantiasis nostras of left leg. TO ILLUSTRATE DR. PARKES WEBER S ARTICLE ON IDIOPATHIC ELEPHANTIASIS NOSTRAS OF LOWER LIMBS AND ITS RELATION TO TROPHCEDEMA AND MILROYS DISEASE. IDIOPATHIC ELEPHANTIASIS NOSTRAS OF LOWER LIMBS. 225 A NOTE ON IDIOPATHIC ELEPHANTIASISNOSTRAS OF LOWER LIMBS AND ITS RELA-TION TO TROPHCEDEMA AND MILROYSDISEASE. F. PAEKES WEBER, MA., M.D., F.R.C.P. The following case is an excellent example of the kind to wliicli Iwish specially to refer. The patient, J. B—, was a man, aged 64years, who had never been out of England, and wlio sought advicein regard to the condition of his left lower exti-emity, a conditionwhich is well shown in the accompanying illustration (see figure).The change was limited to the parts below the knee and wasap()arently due to a chronic increase or hyperplasia of the sab-cutaneous connective tissue—a form of elephantiasis nostras ofuncertain causation, that is to say, of so-called idiopathic nature.The main swelling was just above t

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