The Science of Therapeutics - Classical Homeopathy Online

Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 464 of 653In syphilitic psoriasis the scales form upon a very dark base ; t550 Acute and Chronic Contagious Diseases.are thin, nor are they massed on top of each other in thick layerdifferent from non-syphilitic psoriasis, it spares the elbows andknees, and is most fully developed in the palms of the hands, andon the soles of the feet. Under the scales the skin is considerabinfiltrated, hard and callous, and superficially fissured.The other forms, lichen^ impetigo^ acncj ecthyma^ rupia^ pemphiguhave no peculiar features except the copper-redness. Hzanthemalictubercles constitute one of the more frequent and, at all events,malignant cutaneous affections, since they evince a marked dispostion to purulent dissolution, and to ulceration. They always exhian intensely red color, and break out chiefly on the forehead asCorona veneris. They give rise to the syphilitic lupus. Theyusually form definite, most commonly circular clusters ; the ulcearising from them retain the same arrangement. However, theyhave a very different significance from real lupus, and very seldinvolve any considerable loss of substance. Their place is reallyamong the tertiary phenomena ; they have been mentioned heresimply for the sake of brevity.The syphilitic exanthemata in one form or another generallyexist throughout the whole course of secondary or tertiary syphilvery often constituting the only symptom of the continued presencof the disease. This applies more particularly to acne syphiliticand to the impetigo of the lower extremities, also to the psoriasin the palms of the hands ; the two last-named exanthems are veryfrequently associated with considerable callosities in the skin.The hair very frequently becomes diseased, but not as a rule. Itis certainly a mistake to suppose that the baldness of syphiliticindividuals is always a consequence of mercurial abuse; we haveseen this baldness occur in two cases where no Mercury had beentaken. What is certain, however, is that after mercurial abuse thhair either does not at all grow again, or only very imperfectly.What causes the falling out of the hair, cannot well be explainedsince the scalp not unfrequently has a perfectly normal appearancThe affections of the mucous membranes are mostly seated in thelining membrane of the mouth and nose, less frequently of thelarynx, and still less frequently of the rectum. In the mouth thefavorite locality are the tonsils and the velum palati, and the rimmediately back of the last molar tooth. Here a deep-coloredhypersemia is generally noticed simultaneously with the appearancof the roseola, attended with stinging pain and a difliculty of slowing as after a cold, which, be it remarked incidentally, freSyphilis. 551quently excites the hypenemia. This hypenemia either remains,or else, it disappears for a short period to return again so muchmore intensely, until finally ulcers break out, having all the aphttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt