Klares häusliches Gerede über das menschliche System - die Gewohnheiten von Männern und Frauen - die Ursache und Vorbeugung von Krankheiten - unsere sexuellen Beziehungen und sozialen Naturen (1896) (14764051892)
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Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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pre-dacious wild beasts. Aside from hereditary birth-marks and the purely local results of in-jury and parasitic irritation, the causes of skin diseases are nervous orblood, or both. The champion blood disease—syphilis—has been calledthe great imitator, because it has manifested itself in all forms ofskin disease, and from this fact it is fair to conclude that all these vari-eties, when syphilis is not present, may be due to blood impurities ofsome other origin. In short, what one blood poison can surely do another may, and so wefind some of the most common forms of skin disease accompanyingthose states of mal-nutrition and imperfect elimination which constitutewhat has long been known as the scrofulous state. This affords afoundation upon which to erect a great variety of skin eruptions, fromlichen scrofulosum, a rash of pin-head papules in patches of various sizes,without much itching, to strumous ulcers, which spread slowly and ex- OPPOSITE PAGE 581 PLATE VIII. PLAIN HOME TALK.
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