Handbook of the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases

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Preface

In writing this book I have had in mind the wants of the practitioner, and I have tried to make it useful as a work of ready reference. For this reason I have given space to the description, diagnosis and treatment of the various affections of the skin as met with in practice, touching lightly on questions of etiology, and omitting all reference to pathological anatomy. And this, not because I undervalue such knowledge, but because it does not come within the plan of a work not intended for students of dermatology. For the same reason, the commoner affections and those giving most distress and annoyance to the patient have been treated at full length, while the rarer diseases and those causing little trouble have been dealt with briefly. The alphabetical plan of arrangement has also been adopted, with the object of ready reference in view. In the description, and chiefly in the definition of the various diseases, I have made frequent use of Duhring's well known Treatise, to which and to its author I desire to offer thankful acknowledgment at this time.

129 South Fifteenth St., July, 1884.

Contents

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INTRODUCTION 9

SYMPTOMATOLOGY 9