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CASE 10.—Mrs. H—— was sent to me by Dr. Vassie on January 18th, 1902.
She had suffered from the disease for nine or ten years, had seen other
dermatologists, and visited sulphur and other spas. The disease had
begun with a single patch on the arm, and after remaining single for a
few months, had spread and extended almost all over the body and limbs.
When I saw her, the lesions were practically all over the trunk and
limbs with ill-defined pale red patches with powdery roughness and
decided thickening of the whole cutis of the patches, most marked in a
3-inch patch, situated high up on the right loin. The thigh patches were
also thickened, but on the arms and forearms the thickening was less
marked. On the front of the legs, the patches were irregular and more
decidedly scaly, but not like either eczema or psoriasis. The eruption,
as a whole, was like a seborrhoic eczema but less defined, and in parts
the lesions were very pale and shaded off into the healthy skin. The
neck, face, and hands were free. It smarted in cold weather, but did not
itch.
The catamenia were regular, and her general health when seen was
excellent, but a year previously she had had a fibroid removed after it
had begun to be troublesome for a month from hæmorrhage. Before that the
catamenia were twice a month. There was slight seborrhœa capitis.
Salicin, 15 grains three times a day, was given. On July 17th she was
seen again, and the eruption on the legs was somewhat paler, and that on
the arms was much paler, but over the scapula the lesions were thickened
but paler; but she attributed the improvement to the warmer weather
during the last month, as there was generally some improvement in the
summer, while in the winter it fell back, cracked, and smarted. She was
not seen again until May 12th, 1904, having meanwhile had other advice,
but without any improvement, and none of the patches had gone away. At
Wiesbaden she had subcutaneous injections of cacodylate of soda in the
month while she was there, and once a fortnight for twelve weeks after,
but without benefit. It was noted that the leg’s were distinctly red and
scaly. On the rest of the limbs and body the patches were red and scaly
but without thickening, except on the forearms, the patches on the left
being distinctly thickened. The patches were large, many being
palm-sized and in the aggregate covered three fourths of the body, but
the face and hands were quite free, and the neck nearly so. There was no
itching. As every previous treatment had failed, the possibility of the
disease developing into Mycosis fungoides being entertained, although
itching was absent, it was resolved to try the effect of the Röntgen
rays on a portion of one leg. Nine exposures of ten minutes each at a
distance of eight inches were given, and a month after there was slight
improvement where the rays had been used, but it was not very decided;
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