MEMORANDA ON SKIN DISEASES.

Memoranda on Medical Diseases in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Areas

Pocket Memoranda Relating to Infectious Zymotic Diseases

These memoranda must prove of great value and convenience to general practitioners. They supply all the necessary indications for the differential diagnosis of small-pox, chicken-pox, measles, German measles, scarlatina, diphtheria, idiopathic erysipelas, typhus, typhoid, and mumps. The normal periods of latency, premonitory fever, duration of fever, and length of infectiveness of these disorde...

Skin diseases in athletes

Sports and the development of nations are very much intertwined. Sports dermatology is a growing discipline. Athletes’ skin diseases are a distinct group of diseases, and that repetitive physical activity combined with environmental stressors puts the athlete at the highest level of risk.The purpose of this study is to equip physicians with basic knowledge of skin diseases in athletes. Lack of ...

Psychosomatic skin diseases

Background: Thirty to forty percent of the patients referred to dermatologic clinics are estimated to have psychiatric problems. These patients either are those who have developed dermatologic problems as a consequence of their primary psychiatric disorders or those who have developed psychiatric disorders following their chronic and disfiguring dermatologic problems. The third group are psycho...

Notes on Common Skin Diseases

Synonyms.?Bengal (Hong Kong, Singapore, etc.) rot, mango-toe, athlete's foot and foot tethers are synonyms for ringworm of the foot. The disease is caused by a fungus, chiefly the Epidermophyton fioccosum, and the nidus of infection is usually the feet, between the toes, especially the fourth and fifth toe, and the groin area. From the toes the infection spreads to the other parts of the foot a...