Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... HERPES LABIALIS, OH BETTER, FACIALIS. This affection is now recognized as accompanying febrile diseases. The groups of vesicles will also be seen on the mucous surface of the mouth and pharynx. As to whether such herpetic eruptions in febrile diseases are of good or bad augury, authorities differ. They of course are not of special interest to the dermatologist. Similar sorts of herpetic eruptions occur in otherwise perfectly healthy persons on the forehead, lids, nose, and ear; and in young persons, at certain definite periods of the year, herpetic eruptions recur with febrile symptoms over the extensor surface of the elbow and knee-joints, and after a few days similar groups of vesicles show themselves on'the cheeks or perhaps other parts of the body. These facts, if not new, are now at least settled by recent clinical observation. Not much light has been thrown on the pathology or treatment of this form of herpes. Nothing has been gained by calling every case of it by the name of a quite different disease, heroes zoster or zona. Wilson observed a case of bilateral herpes liabalis accompanied with catarrh and slight stomatitis. The locality of the eruption would, if it depended on it, imply irritation of the dental branch of the inferior maxillary in the right side, and filaments of the infraorbital branch of the superior maxillary on the left side. He mentions a case where repeated attacks, every four to six weeks, of herpes, occurred in a lady set. 28, on the nose, but the vesicles, so to speak, aborted, coming only so far forward as to form a blotch. Another case was where a tender tooth in the upper jaw, second left bicuspid, after inflammation, seemed to be the cause of an herpetic eruption on the skin of the lower lip, close to...
