Phosphorescent sweat has been recorded. Paullini and
the Ephemerides mention perspiration which was of a leek-green
color, and Borellus has observed deep green perspiration. Marcard
mentions green perspiration of the feet, possibly due to stains
from colored foot-gear. The Ephemerides and Paullini speak of
violet perspiration, and Bartholinus has described perspiration
which in taste resembled wine.
Sir Benjamin Brodie has communicated the history of a case of a
young girl of fifteen on whose face was a black secretion. On
attempting to remove it by washing, much pain was caused. The
quantity removed by soap and water at one time was sufficient to
make four basins of water as black as if with India ink. It
seemed to be physiologically analogous to melanosis. The
cessation of the secretion on the forehead was followed by the
ejection of a similar substance from the bowel, stomach, and
kidney. The secretion was more abundant during the night, and at
one time in its course an erysipelas-eruption made its
appearance. A complete cure ultimately followed.
Purdon describes an Irish married woman of forty, the subject of
rheumatic fever, who occasionally had a blue serous discharge or
perspiration that literally flowed from her legs and body, and
accompanied by a miliary eruption.
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