THE DIAGNOSIS OF SELF-INFLICTED LESIONS OF THE SKIN

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Abstract
Two years ago there came under observation in the department of dermatology a patient, the text for this homily on self-inflicted cutaneous lesions, who had been under observation from time to time by able medical men for a period of years without adequate appreciation of the real nature of her trouble. She was presented before the third year medical class in dermatology, and an unaided diagnosis of self-inflicted skin injuries was made by the students as a result of certain fundamental criteria for the recognition of this picture which had been previously impressed on them in their course. That inexperienced medical students could be taught by a comparatively simple written rubric to recognize what their far more learned predecessors had missed, and that the literature over a period of ten years has contained comparatively few references to this group of cutaneous lesions, seem to justify a summary of the facts

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