Sclerodermia with Obstinate Callous Ulcers on the Legs greatly improving under Mercurial Inunction

Non healing legs ulcers infected with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S.M.) is a Gram-negative bacillus, naturally resistant to cephalosporins and carbapenems, which can colonize different sites and may be responsible for serious infections for which treatment is a real challenge. This was rarely reported as cutaneous pathogenic organism causing cellulitis-like lesions, paronychia, mucocutaneous ulcers and ecthyma gangrenosum in immu...

Sclerodermia, Diffuse

Diffuse sclerodermia is a very rare condition. Dr Phineas Abraham, the writer of the article on " Sclerodermia/' in Allbutt and Rolleston's System oj Medicine, in speaking of diffuse sclero' dermia, states that M'Call Anderson had 2 cases in 11,000 disease of the skin, and Crocker 2 in 10,000 cases. In 17,000 general medical cases seen in my hospital practice (8502 in-patients, 863^ out-patient...

Obstinate Vomiting in Pregnancy

I am induced to make some remarks upon this subject of obstinate vomiting in pregnancy, from the fact that within the last five years three cases of albuminuria during gestation have come under my observation, in all of which untoward results occurred, and in two of these obstinate vomiting was the prominent symptom. In one of the cases?the only one of which I mean to give complete details, the...

Muscular Atrophy and Sclerodermia

Practical Observations on the Cure of Wounds and Ulcers on the Legs, without Rest; Illustrated with Cases

gent and laborious classes of the community ; who, for the most part, can only purchase recovery by sacrifices more difficult of endurance than even the suffering consequent on disease. We know not a more painful spectacle than that of a poor wretch limping to a day's labour, of fourteen or fifteen hours duration, with legs thickened more from the effects of foul and chronic ulceration^ than fr...