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Excerpt from Illustrated Skin Diseases: An Atlas and d104-Book With Special Reference to Modern Diagnosis and the Approved Methods of Treatment In the attempt to make a general survey of a branch of medicine so young and so rapidly growing as Dermatology there are difficulties that do not occur in older and more thoroughly explored fields. In cutaneous medicine the description and differentiation of new maladies, and the correlation and grouping of older ones, are still in progress; and the limitations and boundaries of its various subdivisions are still matters of discussion. Classification, upon whatever basis it may be made, is necessarily imperfect, for both the etiology and the pathology of many dermal maladies are still unsettled. Even the nomenclature presents difficulties of its own. In some cases dissimilar diseases are known by similar names, and in others the designations of a single malady are varied and confusing. In the following pages the field of dermal disease has been covered only so far as it is necessarily of interest to every practitioner of medicine. The nomenclature employed is that in common use. The classification that is followed is the simple pathological one recommended by Jessner, which seems to be as good as any one at our disposal to-day. Especial stress is laid upon the Symptomatology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the various diseases, while the less practical considerations of Etiology and Pathology are condensed and cursorily considered. Questions that are still matters of dispute in Dermatology have been, as far as possible, avoided. No attempt has been made in the therapeutic sections to mention all the measures and plans of treatment that have been found useful in the various diseases. The standard modem methods, and more especially those that the author has himself found useful, have been recommended. It is hoped that the simplified and systematized arrangement of the prescriptions will be found useful. Pictorial representation, a recognized aid to the practitioner in every department of medicine, is of preeminent importance in Dermatology. Most of the symptoms are objective and visual, and the diagnosis must generally be made by the eyesight alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.