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HOME PHYSICIAN AND ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEDICINE The biggy of the late 1800's. Clearly shows the massive inroads in medical science and the treatment of disease.
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ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY In fact alcohol was known to be a poison, and considered quite dangerous. Something modern medicine now agrees with. This was known circa 1907. A very impressive scientific book on the subject. |
DISEASES OF THE SKIN is a massive book on skin diseases from 1914. Don't be feint hearted though, it's loaded with photos that I found disturbing. |
Part of SAVORY'S COMPENDIUM OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE:
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PINTA DISEASE1
Synonyms.—Mal del pinto; Mal de los pintos; Tina (Mexico); Caraate; Cute (Venezuela and Granada); Quirica (Panama); Spotted sickness; Fr., Caraté.
Definition.—A contagious affection of certain tropical countries, due to several fungi, characterized by variously sized and shaped scaly discolorations, occurring mostly on exposed parts.
This peculiar malady, of which the earliest accounts were given by Zéa, Alibert, Rayer, Gomez, and more recent ones by Hirsch, Iryz, Lier, Montoya, and Barbe, is seen chiefly in the tropical portions of South America. It was also prevalent among the Aztec Indians in the lowlands of Southern Mexico, where it had existed for centuries (Corlett). Symptoms.—The spots appear first most frequently upon the face or neck. They also develop on other exposed regions, as the fore arms, hands, lower part of the legs and feet, and upper part of the chest. The palms and soles are not invaded. They quite frequently develop
• upon some other previously existing eruption. Their appearance is some times preceded by slight itchiness. Their color varies in different cases
from a white to a bluish gray and various shades to a black; in some in stances it is of a red hue. The spots may be said (Barbe) ordinarily to pass through two stages: an active or developmental period or that of coloration, and a second stage, that of retrogression or pseudovitiliginous, of which the traces are indelible. In whites the first evidences consist of a faint erythema, soon becoming coated over with furfuraceous scaliness; in the colored races the spots are of a yellowish, reddish, or grayish color. The spots become larger by peripheral extension, and new points arise near by which in turn extend, so that finally considerable surface may be invaded. The central portion of the patches gradually begins to change color to a bluish, violaceous, or reddish, from two to five years elapsing before they attain their final definite color. The scaliness often becomes more marked, changing from a furfuraceous to that of lamellar character. A variable degree of hyperkeratinization frequently develops. The itching commonly increases in degree as the disease progresses. In extreme instances most parts are invaded, the tongue, buccal, preputial, and vulvar mucous membranes not escaping. Fissures and ulcerations sometimes occur in the flexures. The hairs may loosen and fall out, in consequence, according to. Montoya, of the development of a form of folliculitis. The general health does not seem to suffer. Some writers describe the occurrence of precursory symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract.
The malady is persistent, and in some instances leaves behind promi nent atrophic whitish spots. It is seen in both sexes, and in both whites and blacks, although the dark races are its more common subjects. It
1 Chief recent literature: Hirsh’s Geograph. and Histor. Pathol., New Sydenham Soc’y Translation, 1885, vol. ii, p. 379 (with bibliography); Iryz, Independentia méd., Mexico, 1881-82, vol. ii, p. 254; review in London Med. Record, 1882, vol. x, p. 175, and Brit. Med. Jour., 1882, vol. ii, p. 903; Lier, Monatshefte, 1892, vol. xiv, p. 447; Montoya Y. Florez, “Recherches sur les caratés de Colombie,” These de Paris, 1898; Barbe, Annales, 1898, p. 985 (with colored plate); also an excellent account by this same writer in La pratique Dermatologie, 1900, vol. i; Woolley, Jour. Cutan. Dis., 1904, p. 479; Sandwith, Brit. Med. Jour., 1905, ii, pp. 479 and 1270 (with bibliography).
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PARASITIC AFFECTIONS
is due, as Montoya’s studies indicate, to several kinds of fungi, of the class aspergillus, each having a distinguishing color. This writer states that he has found similar organisms in certain cereals and plants, in stagnant mine waters, and that the malady is contracted from such sources directly or through the intermedial agency of insects, especially mosquitos. They consist of mycelium and spores, differing somewhat, in minor characters, in the several varieties. The epidermis, especially the corneous layers, is the seat of the parasitic invasion, often involving the rete and causing atrophy of the latter, and finally complete disappear ance of the pigment-cells. Iryz states that in some cases the corium is also involved. Recently Blanchard and Bodin have found a trichophyton. The treatment is essentially the same as that employed in the other vegetable parasitic diseases, more especially of ringworm. Tinc ture of iodin applications seem most in favor for recent patches, and chrysarobin for those of some duration or great obstinacy.
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