It was on the posterior
portions, and twelve hours previous was usually preceded by a
moldy smell and a prickly sensation. On the abdomen and the back
of the neck there was a yellowish secretion. In place of
catamenia there was a discharge reddish-green in color. The
patient denied having taken any coloring matter or chemicals to
influence the color of her perspiration, and no remedy relieved
her cardiac or rheumatic symptoms.
The first English case of chromidrosis, or colored sweat, was
published by Yonge of Plymouth in 1709. In this affection the
colored sweating appears symmetrically in various parts of the
body, the parts commonly affected being the cheeks, forehead,
side of the nose, whole face, chest, abdomen, backs of the hands,
finger-tips, and the flexors, flexures at the axillae, groins,
and popliteal spaces. Although the color is generally black,
nearly every color has been recorded. Colcott Fox reported a
genuine case, and Crocker speaks of a case at Shadwell in a woman
of forty-seven of naturally dark complexion. The bowels were
habitually sluggish, going three or four days at least without
action, and latterly the woman had suffered from articular pains.
The discolored sweat came out gradually, beginning at the sides
of the face, then spreading to the cheeks and forehead.
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