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ECZEMA. (Humid Tetter-Salt Rheum-Dry Tetter). DefinitionCategory: Diseases of The Skin Eczema is an inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized at its commencement by redness, pimples, vesicles, pustules and their combinations, with itching and burning. It terminates in a watery or pus-like discharge with the formation of crusts or scaling. Varieties. There are many varieties, red, scaly, fissured, watery looking and hard skin. Symptoms. Itching is almost always a symptom of this disease. There is more or less pouring out of liquid (serum). The dry, scaly type, and the weeping type, may alternate with each other. There are six cardinal symptoms; inflammation, itching, moisture, crusting, infiltration (liquid filling of the tissues), fissuring or cracking. Dr. Fox says that nearly one-third of all skin diseases are eczema in some of its stages or varieties. In one kind there is red spot (macule). The skin is dry, of a bright or dull red color, with intense itching or burning, more or less watery swelling in the acute stage. In the chronic stage, the skin becomes thick and covered with fine dry scales, usually in the face (Eczema Erythematosum). Next: Eczema Vesiculosum. (Vesicular Eczema) Previous: BLACK-HEADS. Flesh Worms, Comedones, Pimples, etc
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