Essentials of Diseases of the Skin / Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine

by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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Granuloma Fungoides.

Treatment consists of tonics, if indicated, and the administration of arsenic, preferably hypodermically, and Röntgen-ray exposures, along with the application of mild antiseptics, and operative interference when necessary or advisable.

CLASS VII.—NEUROSES.

Hyperæsthesia.

What is hyperæsthesia?

By hyperæsthesia is meant increased cutaneous sensibility. It is usually more or less localized, and is met with as a symptom in functional and organic nervous diseases.

Dermatalgia.

(Synonyms: Neuralgia of the Skin; Rheumatism of the Skin; Dermalgia.)