The Medical Recorder Volume 8 (Paperback)

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. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ... REVIEWS. Quidquid venerit obviam, loquamur Morosa sine cogitatione. MARTIAl. Art. XI. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the SUn, itfc. with original observations. By Samuel Plumbe, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, pp. 392, 1824. " And the leper, in whom the plague is, bis clothes shall be rent and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon" his lips, " and shall cry, unclean unclean'." LevUicut, c. xiii, v. 45. The diseases of the skin are interesting in many points of view: in all ages, some of their forms have been regarded with detestation and horror, and their victims have been doomed to a melancholy exile pronounced by the fears, which the great evils of humanity, when certain and irremediable, never fail to excite. As they have claimed the attention of the great lawgivers of the earth, these feelings, transmitted for centuries, and strengthened bv education, become peculiarly strong; and it is only by the influence of experience and observation, that they can be dissipated, and the sufferers regarded with sufficient attention to become the subjects of remedies. The idea of contagion too often destroys by desertion its miserable victims, or, by palsying the hand of medicine, renders the disease, if chronic, incurable. Under leprosy, the Mosaic law comprehended sycosis (ulcers on the chin), tinea, and the real lepra: the two former were ren Levit. c. xiii, v. 2, 29, &c. a view, which, in the following pages, is shown to be consonant to recent observation;--these diseases are merely varieties of each other. DIVISION I. Fie. 1. The upper part of this cluster of figures is intended to represent the uninflamed follicle; the lower, the commencement and progress of inflammation, and its termination in the formation...