Identifier: practicaltreati00hyd (find matches)
Title: A practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Hyde, James Nevins, 1840-1910 Montgomery, Frank Hugh, 1862- joint author
Subjects: Skin
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea brothers & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Pedis Entophyticus,Ulcus Grave). Mycetoma is an endemic affection, due to the presence of a vegetable parasite inthe tissues, affecting various regions of the body, but especially the foot and thehand, and when of long duration producing grave alterations in other organsthan the skin, such as the muscular and osseous structures. From the date of the earliest description of this disorder by Eyrein 1806 to the present time a number of authors, chiefly Indian phy-sicians, have contributed to the literature of this disease. Among themmay be named Brett (1840), Jille (1842), Ballingall (1855), Van DykeCarter (1859), Berkeley and Biddie (1862), Hirsch (1863), Lewis andCunningham (1875), and still more recently Layet, Liboroux, Bocarro,Bassini, Huntley, Surveyor, Boyce, Gemy, Vincent, Kanthack, Adami,Kirkpatrick, and myself. The disease chiefly occurs in India, but is reported to have beenobserved also in China, Africa, Syria, and, in isolated cases, in a fewcountries of Europe. PLATE XII. (
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DR.HYDES CASE OF MYCETOMA PARASITIC AFFECTIONS. 745 The record of its first recognition on the American Continent isembodied in the apparently unsupported statements of Puelle,1 whoreports that Collas observed one case at La Reunion; Grail andGrand-Mourrel, each one case in Guiana; and Layet one in Chili andanother in Valparaiso. McQuestin2 saw three cases affecting nativeMexicans in the Civil Hospital of Hermosillo, and Kemper3 hasreported a case which for some years has been thought to be the firstoccurring in the United States, but a critical examination of hisdescription of the acute symptoms presented by his patient leaves thequestion of diagnosis somewhat unsettled. Dr. Lamb, of the Surgeon-General7 s office in Washington, is reported to have recognized the dis-ease in a Mexican whose foot was amputated during the late Civil Warin America. Dr. Charles T. Parkes reported that he had successfullyoperated upon a patient suffering from mycetoma in the city of Chi-cago. The disease h

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