Acute pemphigus : a contribution to the aetiology of the acute bullous eruptions / by George Pernet and William Bulloch.

  • Pernet, George.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: Acute pemphigus : a contribution to the aetiology of the acute bullous eruptions / by George Pernet and William Bulloch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    covered with blood-crusts. In some parts the situation of the blebs was occupied by superficial sores or excoriations, cracked and bleeding. Nothing in mouth nor throat. The urine contained no albumen. No fever. A fortnight later the patient was out and about again. These two cases are very interesting, and corroborate the view that severe acute bullous eruptions may arise from infection through a wound. In Case X. the disease was contracted by inoculation from the teats of cows suffering from a bullous eruption. In this place it should be mentioned that bullous eruptions have been observed in cattle and horses. Seaman11 mentions a case of pemphigus in a bullock, resembling pemphigus in man. Seaman saw the case on the day (May 14th) the animal fell ill, and he noticed bullae or bladders, from a small nut to a fowl’s egg in size. The animal was very ill at the time. Excoriations and loss of hair followed. Loiset12 observed a “Pemphigus enzootie” in cows, near.Lille, during September and October, 1887. There were no febrile symp- toms. It is stated that a woman, with an excoriation, presented bullae similar to those seen on the cows, on the right hand, arms and breast. Gibier,13 with Bouley, observed two horses with acute pemphigus. Hoffmann14 has seen acute fatal pemphigus in a horse. Bullous eruptions are also said to have been observed in dogs'5 and in pigs.16 Case X. is further interesting from the fact that the first sign of the eruption was a bleb, which appeared at the bitten spot, a point already insisted on when referring to the cases in butchers, especially Case I.; but the period of incubation was shorter (one week). As to the period of incubation in the tanner (Case IX.), it is diffi- 11 The Veterinarian, 1852, p. 262. 12 Journ. de Med. Vet., 1858. Cited by Falke in Schmidt's Jahrbiicher, 1860, Vol. CV., p. 342. 13 Eecueil de Med. Vet., 1882, Vol. II., Serie 6, p. 480. 14 Hoffmann, Tierarztliche Chirurgie far praht. Tierarzte u. Studierende, 1892, II., p. 490. 15 Vide Gibier, loc. cit. 16 Winkler, cited by Friedberger und Frohner, “ Lehrb. d. spec. Path, und Therap. d. Hausthiere,” 1892, I., p. 412.