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An accompanying Descriptive Catalogue of The New Sydenham’s Society’s Atlas of Portraits of Diseases of the Skin, published in 1869 and 1875, by Johnathan Hutchinson, the Society’s secretary, provided information about each plate in the atlas.
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Modern term: Tertiary syphilis
Tertiary syphilis is characterized by nodules and tumors (gummas) that may ulcerate.
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Modern Term: Linear morphea (en coup de sabre)
En coup de sabre, meaning stroke of a sword, is used to describe a linear depressed plaque of the head due to morphea (localized scleroderma). When severe with facial hemi-atrophy, it is referred to as Parry-Romberg syndrome.
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The three major types of cutaneous lupus are acute, subacute and chronic. This patient has the butterfly rash of acute lupus in which nearly all patients have systemic disease.
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Modern term: Cutaneous small vessel vasculitis or leukocytoclastic vasculitis
Palpable purpura due to immune complex-mediated vasculitis. When immune complexes contain IgA, it is termed Henoch-Schoenlein purpura
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Modern Term: Tinea capitis, and if boggy pustular plaques, kerion
In tinea capitis, alopecia is due to breakage of hair shafts made fragile by the proliferation of dermatophyte conidia within them. Cell-mediated response to infection may produce a boggy edematous plaque of the scalp called a kerion.
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Modern Term: iododerma, halogenoderma
Exposure to halogens, in particular iodides and bromides, can lead to dramatic vesiculobullous eruptions; the lesions may also contain pus but are sterile.
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Modern Term: Impetigo
Secondary staphylococcal or streptococcal infection following breaks in the skin barrier from scratching pruritic lesions of varicella. Honey-colored crusts are characteristic of impetigo.
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Modern Term: Primary and secondary syphilis
Widespread erythematous plaques with scale represent secondary phase and well-circumscribed ulcers in pubic region represent primary phase (chancres).
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Modern Term: Lepromatous leprosy
Disseminated nodules and plaques that teem with M. leprae bacilli. Lepromatous leprosy represents the anergic pole of the disease.
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Papulopustular eruption that affects at least 80% of teenagers. Onset is at puberty because androgens lead to changes in the follicular epithelium.
