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_Henoch's purpura_, observed chiefly in children, resembles the above, with the erythema multiforme character and the [oe] dematous swellings more pronounced, while the actual purpuric symptoms are less conspicuous.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The skin, which is noted to be reddish, purplish or mottled, is [oe] dematous, stiff and tense; in consequence the infant is unable to move, respires feebly and usually perishes in a few days or weeks.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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After months or one or two years the enlargement or hypertrophy becomes conspicuous, the part is chronically swollen, [oe] dematous and hard; the skin is thickened, the normal lines and folds exaggerated, the papillæ enlarged and prominent, and with more or less fissuring and pigmentation.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Tinea kerion (_kerion_) is a markedly inflammatory type of ringworm of the scalp involving the deeper tissues, appearing as a more or less bald, rounded, inflammatory, [oe] dematous, boggy, honeycombed tumor, discharging from the follicular openings a mucoid secretion.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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(These [oe] dematous swellings occurring alone might be looked upon, as they are by most observers, as an independent affection, but its close relationship to ordinary urticaria is often evident.) #Describe urticaria bullosa.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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