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Excerpt from Modern Theories and Treatment of Eczema
Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
A great diversity of Opinion has prevailed among different schools and different authors from the earliest days of dermatology as to the proper conception of the term eczema, an affection that is so varied in its clinical manifestations, and so greatly in¿uenced by many factors of. Both external and internal nature that to-day it is improbable that a definition satisfactory to the larger number of students of this disease could be formulated. Many writers have indeed abandoned all attempt at a strict definition, and have contented them selves with a discussion of the various clinical appear anoes and pathological features that are met with. Of late years much interest has been aroused by the doctrine of a parasitic causation for some of its forms, and certain authors have gone so far as to declare that every case, that is properly speaking an eczema, is of parasitic origin. My object is not an attempt to cover the whole field of the pathology of eczema, but to describe some of the later theories that have been advanced, and to point out their strength or weakness, as they appear to me.
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