Identifier: photographicatla01foxguoft (find matches)
Title: Photographic atlas of the diseases of the skin; a series of ninety-six plates, comprising nearly two hundred illustrations, with descriptive text, and a treatise on cutaneous therapeutics
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fox, George Henry, 1846-1937
Subjects: Dermatology
Publisher: Philadelphia Lippincott
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rongerunder a general tonic treatment, and her frequent headaches disap-peared, the hair returned and grew quite as readily on the untouchedportions of scalp as where the acid had been applied. Six monthslater, after the strain of nursing a sick relative, the hair began to fallagain, thereby showing the dependence of the disease upon the stateof the patients general health. The illustration shows an advanced stage of the disease in whichthe individual areas of baldness have enlarged and coalesced until thegreater portion of the scalp is denuded. The numerous patches ofdark hair indicate that there were originally many bald areas of smallsize, the circular outlines of which are still suggested by the concavemargin of the hairy patch upon the occiput. The growth of white hairat various points indicates a tendency to recovery, and constitutes afavorable element of prognosis. This non-pigmented hair, which oftenappears first upon the bald areas, gradually assumes a normal color. PLATE IV.
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Copyrigbt, 1900, by G. H. Fo ALOPECIA AREATA. PLATE V.ALOPECIA AREATA ALOPECIA AREATA These four illustrations present a variety of clinical pictures ofAlopecia Areata, in the tlrst is seen a typical, smooth, white, hairlessspot, which was less than half the present size when it was firstdiscovered. It has spread evenly and thereby retained its circularoutline. In some cases the disease may be limited to a single baldarea, but, as a rule, one or more small areas develop near the first, orat a distance from it. In the second illustration is seen the coalescence of~a second area,developing at the margin of the tlrst. Occasionally the coalescence ofa number of patches will produce a long band of baldness or denudeone temporal region completely. The development of a new area at the margin of an older one canoften be predicted by the loosening of the hair at this point, while itremains comparatively firm around the greater portion of the border. The third illustration shows a large number

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