Case of dermatitis herpetiformis with peculiar gelatinous lesions / by Louis A. Duhring.

  • Duhring, Louis A., 1845-1913.
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[1885]
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Credit: Case of dermatitis herpetiformis with peculiar gelatinous lesions / by Louis A. Duhring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from The Medical News, March 7, 1885.] CASE OF DERMATITIS HERPETIFORMIS, WITH PECULIAR GELATINOUS LESIONS. By LOUIS A. DUHRING, M.D., PROFESSOR OF SKIN DISEASES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. John S., set. 64, a native of Wilmington, Dela¬ ware, and a peddler by occupation. He has always enjoyed good general health; weight, 175 pounds. No family history. The present skin disease is of five years’ duration, but he has had the same only in winter. It has been in the habit of coming on with cold weather and disappearing about the middle of May, and it has pursued this course every year. He never had any skin disease or illness of any kind be¬ fore seven years ago, when an “eczema” of the right leg appeared, which has been cured repeatedly by ointments, but has relapsed. He is of the opinion that the disease of the general surface which he now has is the same disease that he has had for the last five years; but that it is worse this winter than ever be¬ fore When it first came out (in October, 1874) he was in his usual good health. It manifested itself by