Posts tagged maladies
![Tubercules d’Elephantiasis et Framboesia [framboesia = yaws]
1. Elephantiasis - Cutaneous and sub-cutaneous tubercules and a small number of ulcerations.
2. Elephantiasis - Less common manifestation of elephantiasis - larger tubercules due to branching vascularization near surface of dermis
3. Hypertrophic ear with something that translates to “glaze of tuberculous nipples”. Make of it what you will.
4. Ulceration of epiglottis, person afflicted with elephantiasis.
5. Band of ulceration on upper palate.
6. Framboesia [Yaws] - Red pimples and fungoid ulcers [characteristic of primary stage of yaws]
7. Framboesia [Yaws] - White fungoid ulceration [characteristic of sores appearing during tertiary stage of yaws, when the spirochete invades the bones and nodules around joints]
Traité des maladies de la peau. Pierre François Rayer, 1835.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrc4aiu4Y41qk931ho1_400.jpg)
Tubercules d’Elephantiasis et Framboesia [framboesia = yaws]
1. Elephantiasis - Cutaneous and sub-cutaneous tubercules and a small number of ulcerations.
2. Elephantiasis - Less common manifestation of elephantiasis - larger tubercules due to branching vascularization near surface of dermis
3. Hypertrophic ear with something that translates to “glaze of tuberculous nipples”. Make of it what you will.
4. Ulceration of epiglottis, person afflicted with elephantiasis.
5. Band of ulceration on upper palate.
6. Framboesia [Yaws] - Red pimples and fungoid ulcers [characteristic of primary stage of yaws]
7. Framboesia [Yaws] - White fungoid ulceration [characteristic of sores appearing during tertiary stage of yaws, when the spirochete invades the bones and nodules around joints]
Traité des maladies de la peau. Pierre François Rayer, 1835.
Ways to Die: Erysipelas
Erysipelas:
A skin infection, typically caused by an acute streptococcal infection (typically Streptococcus pyogenes), characterized by hot skin, fever, infected dermis and lymphatics, and when the infection reaches deeper tissues, can lead to serious complications. Erysipelas can often lead to dissection of the dermis from the epidermis. Basically the skin gets removed from its base and forms a bubble. Erysipelas can also be present at the onset of gangrene.
The skin also takes on a peau-de-orange appearance where the infection has spread - it looks like the skin of an orange peel in texture.
[Illustration from A Manual of Pathology. Joseph Coats & Lewis K. Sutherland, 1900.]
In our age of antibiotics and prophylactics and cleanliness, it’s very rare that erysipelas leads to severe complications, but it was a very dangerous condition to acquire in centuries past.
Anatomist Jean Cruveilhier. Illustration circa 1840. Ectopic pregnancy carried to 7 months before rupture.
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