Eczema rubrum is characterized by a red, raw-looking, weeping, oozing or discharging surface, attended with more or less inflammatory thickening, infiltration and swelling; the exudation, consisting of serum, sometimes bloody, dries into thick yellowish or reddish-brown crusts. At one time the whole diseased area may be hidden under a mass of crusting, at other times a red, raw-looking, weeping surface (_eczema madidans_) is the most striking feature. Itching is slight or intense, or the subjective symptom may be a feeling of burning. It is an important clinical type, usually developing from the vesicular, pustular or other primary variety. It is common about the face and scalp in children, and the middle and lower part of the leg in elderly people. #What is the course of eczema rubrum?# Chronic, varying in intensity from time to time. #Describe the symptoms of fissured eczema.# The conspicuous symptom is a marked tendency to fissuring or cracking of the skin (_eczema fissum_; _eczema rimosum_). This tendency is usually a part of an erythematous or squamous eczema, the fissuring constituting the most conspicuous and troublesome symptom. _Chapping_ is an extremely mild but familiar example of this type. It is especially common about the hands and fingers. #What is the course of fissured eczema?# It is more or less persistent, the tendency to fissuring varying considerably according to the state of the weather, often disappearing spontaneously in the summer months. #Describe eczema sclerosum and eczema verrucosum.# In eczema sclerosum the skin is thickened, infiltrated, hard, and almost horny. Eczema verrucosum presents similar conditions, but, in addition, displays a tendency to papillary or wart-like hypertrophy. In both varieties the disease is usually seated about the ankle or the foot, developing from the papular or squamous type. They are uncommon, and obstinately chronic. #State the nature of the subjective symptoms in eczema.# Itching, commonly intense, is usually a conspicuous symptom; it may be more or less paroxysmal. In some cases burning and heat constitute the main subjective phenomena. #Is eczema accompanied by febrile or systemic symptoms?# No. In rare instances, in acute universal eczema, slight febrile action, or other systemic disturbance, may be noted at the time of the outbreak. #Is the eczematous eruption (patch or patches) sharply defined against the neighboring sound skin?# No. In almost all instances the diseased area merges gradually and imperceptibly into the surrounding healthy integument. #What is the character of eczema as regards the degree of inflammatory action?# The inflammatory action may be acute, subacute or sluggish in character, and may be so from the start and so continue throughout its whole course; or it may, as is usually the case, vary in intensity from time to time. #State the character of eczema as regards duration.#