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Molluscum.
The affection, Molluscum, is an enlargement of the sebaceous or oil glands
of the skin, which become distended by an accumulation of matter
in their cavities. These distended glands may become as large as a
pea or even as a hazel nut ; the top is flattened and the center usually somewhat depressed. When the tumor is compressed a whitish cheesy mass-the accumulated secretion of the gland-escapes.
These little tumors occur especially on the face, on the eye
lids, on the neck and on the hands; sometimes they are solitary, but
are often arranged in groups. They usually occur in children, and
have been supposed to be contagious, since the occurrence of one
on the hand of a child is apt to be followed by the appearance of
similar growths on the skin of its playmates. Yet numerous
efforts to inoculate an individual with the contents of these tumors
have failed, and it seems doubtful wrhether they are really contagious.
Treatment.-In many cases these little tumors wither away
spontaneously, in other instances they become inflamed and matter is formed around them, as a result of which they are ultimately
destroyed. They can be readily removed in any one of several
ways ; their contents may be squeezed between the thumb nails,
and the interior of the sac can be destroyed by touching it with a
stick of lunar caustic, or the little tumor maybe snipped out with a
pair of scissors.
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