SYPHILITIC LEUCODERMA IN A MALE

Leucoderma

Leucoderma in early syphilis.

CASE 1 A 25-year-old man first noticed depigmented lesions on the face and neck; a few days later he developed asymptomatic erythematous papular and scaly lesions over the trunk and extremities, and moist papular lesions on the scrotal skin. Two weeks later when he reported to us, some of the trunk lesions had also become depigmented. Four months earlier after an extramarital sexual exposure, t...

Treatment for Leucoderma

A New Method of Treating Leucoderma

derma is mainly empirical and is rarely attended by satisfactory results. Many years of experience of treating hundreds of cases at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine has led us to place our faith in external application of the oil extracted from the seeds of Psoralia corylijolia and known as bouchi oil, together with internal administration of intestinal antiseptics, but although persist...

Notes on a Case of Leucoderma

By Assistant Surgeon A. "Wood, M.D. Reading somewhere, a short time ago, an article on the diagnosis between white leprosy and leucoderma, which then greatly interested me, I was soon afterwards gratified by having to treat a case of the latter, so well marked, as perhaps to justify my offering a few remarks thereon, in the hope that they may prove as acceptable to others, as the actual observa...