Can I read Molluscum Contagiosum: Report Of An Institutional Epidemic Of Fifty-nine Cases on EtoBox?

Molluscum Contagiosum: Report Of An Institutional Epidemic Of Fifty-nine Cases by FRANK CROZER KNOWLES is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Molluscum Contagiosum: Report Of An Institutional Epidemic Of Fifty-nine Cases about?

Dermatolo gist to the Northern Dispensary, the Church Home for Chil¬ dren, the St. Vincent's Home, the Baptist Orphanage ; Assistant Dermatologist to the Dispensary of the Children's Hospital ## PHILADELPHIA The term "molluscum" ("molluscis") was first used as¡ descriptive of a dermatologie condition by Ludivig,1 in 1739. The word was probably intended as a syno¬ nym for "mollis," describing certain soft tumors. Ali- bert,2 Biett,3 Cazenàve4 and Schedel,5 on the contrary, attribute the origin of the term, used by Bateman,6 to some resemblance existing between the cutaneous tu¬ mors and the knots on the bark of the maple. The disease was first described by Bateman in 1817, who gave a very good clinical description. The nomencla¬ ture of dermatology in the earlier days of this science of medicine was exceedingly chaotic. Several cases were reported as molluscum contagiosum shortly after Bate- man's communication, but the most of these were, prob¬ ably, fibroma molluscum. Alibert treated of molluscum contagiosum under the name of "mycosis fungoides." Bazin7 described the disease under the term of "acne varioliformis." Erasmus Wilson8 wrote of the condi¬ tion under the heading of small

Who reads Molluscum Contagiosum: Report Of An Institutional Epidemic Of Fifty-nine Cases?

Author

FRANK CROZER KNOWLES

Published

1909

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)