PEMPHIGOID OF THE NEW-BORN (PEMPHIGUS NEONATORUM)
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- 3 October 1914
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. LXIII (14) , 1159-1165
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1914.02570140013006
Abstract
Pemphigus neonatorum, or, as Jadassohn1more aptly terms it, "pemphigoid of the new-born" or "infantile pemphigoid," was first described as an independent disease in 1773 by Ochene.2Previous to this time it had been confounded with syphilis, and even up to the end of the last century there were many who considered it syphilitic in origin. A number of epidemics of this disease have been reported by different men, for example, Rigby3in 1834 described several mothers in a London obstetric house who were affected from their infants, and he himself contracted the disease while performing a necropsy on one of the infants. Brocq2thinks that in 1850 Lasegue and Trousseau4without a doubt described an epidemic of this disease from the Necker Hospital under the name of "Varicelle Pemphigoid." Following this, epidemics were reported by Hervieux, Olshausen and Mekus, Klemm, Koch and others.2Keywords
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