What do you understand by dermatalgia?
By dermatalgia is meant a tender or painful condition of the skin unattended by structural change. It is commonly limited to a small area, and is usually symptomatic of functional or organic nervous disease. As an idiopathic affection it is looked upon as of a rheumatic origin.
Treatment depends upon the cause.
Anæsthesia.
What is anæsthesia?
Anæsthesia is a diminution, comparative or complete, of cutaneous sensibility. It is usually localized, and is met with in the course of certain nervous affections. It is also encountered in leprosy, morphœa and like diseases.
Pruritus.
What do you understand by pruritus?
Pruritus is a functional disease of the skin, the sole symptom of which is itching, there being no structural change.
Describe the symptoms of pruritus.