ERYSIPELOID AND SWINE ERYSIPELAS IN MAN
- 20 February 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 86 (8) , 536-541
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1926.02670340014006
Abstract
Tilbury Fox1was apparently the first to describe what is now generally designated as erysipeloid. In 1873, he briefly described two instances of an eruption clinically conforming with that disease. In the same year Monant Baker2under the name of erythema serpens described a number of cases occurring exclusively on the hands of cooks and butchers, and on those handling game and rabbit skins. His description of the eruption was essentially the same that Rosenbach subsequently described. Rosenbach aptly designated the eruption as erysipeloid (now generally known as erysipeloid of Rosenbach) and published in 18843and in 18874the results of his study. He described the eruption as an erysipelas-like affection, frequently encountered in cooks, kitchen workers, butchers and those who handle game and fish, and in shopkeepers who handle cheese or herring, manifesting itself chiefly about the fingers and hands, and characterized by a slowlyKeywords
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