VERRUCAE, A DERMATOLOGIC PROBLEM

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Abstract
In dermatology there are many unsolved major and minor problems. In the major group are the collagen diseases, the lymphoblastomas and the disturbances of lipoid metabolism, all of which may affect health life. In the minor group are other dermatoses with a less pronounced effect on the general health but which may be most distressing to the patient, disturbing and baffling to the physician. The wart problem is therapeutic rather than diagnostic, not only because treatment is often ineffectual but because it is difficult to evaluate the results of treatment in lesions reacting as peculiarly and inconsistently as warts. TYPES OF VERRUCAE Warts are small, almost universally benign papillary overgrowths, which vary in size, color and shape. They are slightly commoner in women, but certain families seem to have a relatively greater resistance to infection with the wart virus than other families. Warts are autoinoculable and transmissible and may disappear
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