Descriptive catalogue of the Dermatological Collection (models and casts) : contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by H. Radcliffe Crocker, with the assistance of J.H. Targett.

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England. Museum.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the Dermatological Collection (models and casts) : contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by H. Radcliffe Crocker, with the assistance of J.H. Targett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the ear made its appearance, and more recently the smaller patch at the side of the nose. The affection was attended with itching, hut never with pain ; there was no obvious ulceration, and at the time of his quitting the hospital the larger patches were pro- gressing towards cure. Baretta. 177. Syphilitic ulcer of the cheek near the commissure of the mouth. The sore is oval in figure and measures nearly an inch in its longest diameter. It is elevated, has a smooth buff-coloured base, and is bordered by a prominent margin. A little redness beyond the margin is probably due to local applications. The cheek of the affected side is swollen, and some enlargement below the jaw suggests the existence of swelling of the lymphatic glands. The patient was an adult female. The disease is named by Guibout “ indurated chancre,” and the model is numbered 214 in the Paris collection. Baretta, 178. S}^hilitic ulcer or chancre of the left nympha. Model of the pudendum of a girl. Both nymphse are swollen, especially the left one, w’hich presents a circular ulcer deeply excavated and nearly three quarters of an inch in diameter. The margin of the ulcer is red and angry, and the base is smooth and buff-coloured. Guibout terms it “ chancre primitif indure.^’ The model is numbered 225 in the Paris collection. Baretta, 179. Macular Syphilide (synonym, Abdo- men flecked with a dull red eruption. The patient was a man 40 years of age. A week after contagion he became the subject of a superficial spreading sore on the pre- puce, and six weeks later the macular eruption exliibited in the drawing made its appearance on the front of the trunk and thighs, and lasted for three weeks. He had no sore throat, no enlarged glands, and no neuralgia. This is the water-colour study for one of the series of “ Portraits of Diseases of the Skin.” 180. Dermatosyphilis, or Cutaneous Syphilis. Water-colour study of the various manifestations of Syphilis of the skin,