Leloir and
Vidal shorten the name to acne cornee.
Erasmus Wilson speaks of it as ichthyosis sebacea cornea. H. G.
Brooke describes a case in a girl of six. The first sign had been
an eruption of little black spots on the nape of the neck. These
spots gradually developed into papules, and the whole skin took
on a dirty yellow color. Soon afterward the same appearances
occurred on both shoulders, and, in the same order, spread
gradually down the outer sides of the arms--first black specks,
then papules, and lastly pigmentation. The black specks soon
began to project, and comedo-like plugs and small, spine-like
growths were produced. Both the spines and plugs were very hard
and firmly-rooted. They resisted firm pressure with the forceps,
and when placed on sheets of paper rattled like scraps of metal.
A direct history of contagion was traced from this case to
others.
Mibelli describes an uncommon form of keratodermia
(porokeratosis). The patient was a man of twenty-one, and
exhibited the following changes in his skin: On the left side of
the neck, beyond a few centimeters below the lobe of the ear,
there were about ten small warty patches, irregularly scattered,
yellowish-brown in color, irregular in outline, and varying in
size from a lentil to a half-franc piece, or rather more.
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