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Pruritus vulvae

Pruritus vulvae can have infectious as well as noninfectious causes. In sexually active women, infectiousborne pruritus is mainly caused by vulvovaginal candidiasis. However, also changes in the bacterial flora can cause itching and burning. In persistent and regressing cases, we also have to consider non-infectious dermatoses. Here, the most common disease is lichen sclerosus, not only present...

Pruritus vulvae.

Anogenital irritation is a fairly common complaint by women in a general practitioner's surgery. No age group is exempt, if nappy rash is included, but strictly speaking pruritus is itching or irritation rather than soreness. In this region pruritus is a particularly distressing complaint because to attempt to relieve it by scratching is socially unacceptable. For this reason, parents may consu...

Elephantiasis

Chronica HORTICULTURAE

Scrotal Elephantiasis

an early mpjfcality of twenty-seven per cent, in sixty-one cases of operation for Scrotal Elephantiasis reported by Fayrer Oh" referring to my published record of these cases, I obsor-ve that the total number of cases operated upon during, .the yea-s, 1859 to 1871 amounted to 193, of which 35, or a fraction over 18 per cent., proved fatal. This is befit'dr than represented by Koch's, as above q...