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Excerpt from The British Journal of Dermatology, Vol. 4: January-December, 1892 The eruption is not associated with itching or smarting, and only occasionally gives rise to a slight sensation of heat. The lesions are very permanent, a few only subsiding, according to her account, from time to time, to be replaced by fresh ones. None of them are, or have been, haemorrhagic, there are no telangiectases, and the feet and all the rest of the skin are quite free from eruption of any kind. As I had seen no case precisely similar to this before, I thought it worthy of the attention of the Dermatological Society, and the patient was shown at the meeting on December 9th. The majority of members who saw her had the same experience (or want of it) as myself but Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson (who was fortunately present) informed us that he had seen several similar cases, and that one of them, occurring in a young lady, was an almost exact counterpart of the case under consideration. He thought the affection was allied to chilblains, and was met with in those whose peripheral circulation was sluggish, with a tendency to venous congestion and coldness of the extremities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.