Sometimes it presents flaccid bullae like pemphigus foliaceus, and then there are crusts as well as scales, with rhagades on the mouth, anus, etc.
Opinions differ regarding it, some considering it of septic origin, while others believe it to be nothing but pemphigus foliaceus.
Thus, in the case of a child four years old, described by Grimshaw,[40] an eruption of pemphigus occurred over the whole body.
Section of the rete mucosum and papillae from the same case of pemphigus as Fig.
Footnote 74: Non-syphilitic pemphigus is said to be never present at birth, nor until the child has become considerably exhausted by wasting from some defect of nutrition.
Footnote 68: Pemphigus may indeed be a specific affection, but no characteristic sign has been discovered sufficient to distinguish it from the ordinary form of pemphigus.
The acute form is subdivided according to the degree of inflammation, as pemphigus pompholyx in which it is severe, and pemphigus benignus, when it is mild.
Pemphigus is always caused by a vitiated state of the system.
The bullæ ofpemphigus are illustrated in Colored Plate III, Fig.
Describe the symptoms and course of pemphigus foliaceus.
A grave type of pemphigus is exceptionally observed in the newborn--pemphigus neonatorum.
Pemphigus is an acute or chronic disease characterized by the successive formation of irregularly-scattered, variously-sized blebs.
Exceptionally cases (dermatitis vegetans) are met with which have a close similarity in their symptoms to pemphigus vegetans, but in which the eruption is more or less limited to the genitocrural region.
From what diseases is pemphigus to be differentiated?
Describe the symptoms and course of pemphigus vulgaris.
Most of the cases diagnosed as pemphigus by the inexperienced are examples of bullous urticaria, bullous erythema multiforme, and impetigo contagiosa.
In some cases distinct blebs result, and a picture of pemphigus eruption presented; it is probable that many of the cases of "contagious pemphigus" belong to this class.
In some cases of pemphigus (pemphigus vegetans) a vegetating or papillomatous condition develops from the base of the lesion, with an offensive discharge; it is usually a grave type of the malady.
Two varieties are usually described--pemphigus vulgaris and pemphigus foliaceus.
These developments lead us to suspect that urticaria andpemphigus are identical in essence; this fact is richly substantiated by the homœopathic law which furnishes identical means of cure for either of these affections.
Neusser found in a pemphigus patient, whose blood shewed a considerable increase of the eosinophils, that the contents of the pemphigus bulla consisted almost entirely of eosinophil cells.
Just as we saw in pemphigus, Neusser's eosinophilous suppuration occurred only in the specific pemphigus bullæ, but not in the foci of suppuration that were artificially produced.
In the pemphigus bullæ a substance is present that chemiotactically attracts the eosinophils.
Fitch describes as a grape leaf-louse, thePemphigus vitifolia, which inhabits the gall-like excrescences upon the foliage of some varieties, particularly those with thin leaves.
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