VOL. XIX.
FEBRUARY, 1901.
NO. 2.
A Peculiar Case of Dermographism (chronic, factitious, hemorrhagic
urti-caria).—T. FABRY (Arch. f. Derm. u. Syph., vol. 54, 1900, pp. 111-117).
The personal and family history of this interesting and unique case shows nothing of note; only one attack of inflammation of the lungs could be recorded during her sixty-three years of life. She has been married and had seven children.
The first attack of the disease occurred when she was sixty years old. It appeared in the form of ecchymoses in the upper eyelids which disappeared, reappearing in fourteen days, without producing any trouble. Then developed an itching sensation on the neck and breast and when the patient scratched the itching regions hemorrhagic bands appeared, which remained for weeks, changing their color in the same manner as we usually notice in hemorrhages. No hemorrhages have been noticed either in the mucous . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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