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Title: Tri-State medical journal and practitioner
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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er very largeareas of the integument, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. Ignorance of thedisease or of its very existence may lead to an utter disregard of the trouble,and result in a case such as that shown in Figure 1, who was a youngmarried woman infected with syphilis. Being a country girl, she had noidea of what the trouble was, and imagined that it was one of the regularaccompaniments of the marital state. Neglect in such cases is certainlypardonable. In the case shown in Figure 2, the patient was a man whom adoctor treated for psoriasis, but with little success. Ignorance of the 164 Original Articles. nature of the real condition will not only bring about the conditiondepicted, but may occasionally lead to most serious and disastrous resultswhich it will be found a most difficult task to even ameliorate. It is partlyfor this reason that the medical profession at large should make efforts tobecome more thoroughly acquainted with the commoner skin diseases andsyphilitic manifestations.
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S. i. Squamous Syphilide iu a Woman. (Back, Buttocks and Arms.) Like all squamous affections of the skin, this particular syphiliticmanifestation has a tendency to persist for a long time unless energeticmeasures be adopted, and even then the best directed efforts at times obtainbut a very slight improvement. The condition of chronicity is apt to su-pervene in spite of all that is done. What concerns us more directly at The Squamous Syphilide—Ohmann-Dumesnil. 165 present is the question of diagnosis. This is not so difficult to attain, ifbut proper attention be given to the fundamental principles governing thematter. The distribution of the squamous syphilide, when it occurs uponthe body, seems to be pretty general. The scales are white in color, thin,

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