Superficial glossitis, again, is sometimes manifested by the eruption of vesicles on the tongue, under which circumstance it is often denominated vesicular glossitis, sometimes herpetic glossitis.
Herpetic tonsillitis requires the ordinary treatment for erythematous tonsillitis, with additional topical treatment by sprays of alkaline solutions, such as sodium borate or bicarbonate, five grains to the ounce, or lime-water.
Herpetic tonsillitis is a rare form of inflammation of the tonsil, or rather of its investing mucous membrane, characterized by the eruption of herpetic vesicles on its surface.
An instance of herpetic glossitis from probable irritation of the chorda-tympani nerve by an aural polypus (Berkely Hill[67]) seems to lend some force to this opinion.
When the superficial inflammatory process is a vesicular one, eventually sheathing the surface of the organ in whole or in part with a membranous envelope, it constitutes herpetic or membranous tonsillitis.
Acute pharyngitis may be catarrhal or erythematous, phlegmonous or suppurative, ulcerative, herpetic or membranous, gangrenous, and erysipelatous.
Common membranous or pseudo-membranous sore throat (angina membranosa communis) is used as a synonym for herpetic or membranous tonsillitis (tonsillitis herpetica seu membranosa).
Nervous irritation, such as of the chorda-tympani nerve, is attributed as a causal influence of unilateral vesicular glossitis, herpetic or otherwise, and as a probable factor in other varieties of unilateral glossitis.
One patient had developed a chronic herpetic affection by the constant use of an iodized ointment which he regarded as an infallible prophylactic.
On the left chest an herpetic eruption of the size of a dollar, and on the mamma a hard tumor of the size of a fist.
Herpetic eruptions and syphilitic excrescences or exanthemata dry up and heal up, while simultaneously the relaxed and thoroughly infected body steadily increases in turgor vitals.
The head and hands became covered with suppurating nodules and small exuding herpetic spots, which became confluent and itched terribly, a most classic picture of the herpes of the ancients.
In the centre of the forehead, at the root of the nose, on both eyebrows, on the temples and right cheek there are moist herpetic eruptions covered with crusts, exuding on least pressure an acrid ichor and easily bleeding.
It is also said to have proved useful in herpetic ringworm.
Dose, 1 to 2, daily; in cancerous, scrofulous, andherpetic affections.
Frequently an eruption of herpes is observed upon the lips and upon other parts of the face, from which circumstance the disease is sometimes called herpetic fever.
Feron also calls Bretonneau's mild form of the disease a herpetic angina with pseudo-membrane; so does Gubler.
On one occasion a crop of herpetic vesicles developed along the course of a dorsal nerve in an injury implicating a single intercostal space posteriorly.
Several crops of herpetic vesicles also developed over the distribution of the radial nerve in the hand.
There was some general oedema of the legs, especially of the right, possibly in connection with the herpetic eruption which was now disappearing.
As an illustration of the herpetic variety of dorso-intercostal neuralgia, running a severe but not protracted course, I may relate the case of a medical man whom I formerly attended.
These are chiefly of value in those cases where a distinct inflammation (herpetic or erysipelatoid), or an unusual degree of sensitiveness on pressure, etc.
In adult and later life the symptoms usually commence with a more or less violent attack of neuralgic pain, which is succeeded, and generally, though not always, displaced by the herpetic eruption.
The herpetic vesicles leave obstinate and painful ulcers behind them, which refuse to heal, and which worry the patient frightfully, the merest breath of air upon them sufficing to produce agonizing darts of neuralgic pain.
Winking habits follow an herpetic involvement of the superior branch of the fifth nerve.
Herpetic conditions resemble urticaria in their response to mental conditions.
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