Mr. GERALD SICHEL (introduced) showed, on behalf of Sir Cooper Perry:
(1) The boy, aged 8 years, who was shown at the February meeting as a
case for diagnosis, and in whose case the chronic nodular annular
patches had gradually increased in size; fresh, hard, painless, and but
slightly tender, shotty nodules had also developed in the periosteum of
the left temporal region. Dr. Galloway recognised the case as identical
with one he had described in this journal as _Lichen annularis_. Dr.
Pringle also had seen similar cases.
(2) A boy, aged 13 years, presenting symmetrical, painless
_callosities_, covering in size an area of between a shilling and a
two-shilling piece, on the back of each heel, and which he had noticed
for the past eight or nine months.
THE DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
A meeting of this Society was held on Wednesday, February 22nd, 1905,
Dr. H. WALDO in the chair.
The following cases were exhibited:
* * * * *
Dr. W. CLEMENT DANIEL exhibited a man, a photographer by occupation,
with a _symmetrical eruption upon the legs_ resembling a chronic eczema,
the irritation of which was very severe at times.
The general consensus of opinion was that this was a case of Lichen
planus.
* * * * *
Mr. T. J. P. HARTIGAN showed (1) a case of _tertiary syphilis_ in a man,
aged 90 years, with a history of ten years’ duration. It was recorded by
Mr. Waren Tay, to whom the exhibitor was indebted for the case, that
“there is a very warty patch on the tip of the elbow, the papillæ and
epidermis being enormously hypertrophied. Adjacent is a horse-shoe
patch, suggesting tertiary syphilis. There are no other patches, and
only doubtful evidence of slight scarring, and of its serpiginous
character. It is stated to have followed a blow which caused an
abrasion, and that, working with his sleeves up, he often knocked the
elbow.” A histological examination showed a granulomatous infiltration
of the corium very suggestive of syphilis, and there had been marked
improvement under potassium iodide. The case was interesting as showing
(_a_) that extreme old age was no bar to the occurrence of gummata, and
(_b_) the enormous hypertrophy that may accompany the condition.
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