Plate 32-Pruriginous impetigo (following varicella)

Item

Title

Plate 32-Pruriginous impetigo (following varicella)

Description

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.

Date

1860-1884

Subject

Skin--Diseases.

Format

Still image

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1859702

Publisher

New Sydenham Society

Source

Atlas of portraits of diseases of the skin

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Contributor

Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Type

Chromolithographs

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