Entry Nos. 4100–4199

1775 CE

#2122

Chirurgical observations relative to the cataract, the polypus of the nose, the cancer of the scrotum, etc.

Includes the first description of occupational cancer. By describing chimney sweeps” cancer of the scrotum, Pott was the first to trace the origin of a type of cancer to a specific external cause. The above work…

1889 CE

#4100

Ueber das Ulerythema ophryogenes, eine noch nicht beschriebene Hautkrankheit.

Ulerythema ophryogenes (“Taenzer’s disease”) first described.

1889 CE

#4101

Sur une nouvelle forme de dermatite pustuleuse chronique en foyer à progression excentrique.

Pyodermite végétante. Hallopeau described a suppurative form of Neumann’s pemphigus vegetans.

1890 CE

#4102

Acanthosis nigricans. In: Int. Atlas seltener Hautkrankheiten, Heft 4, plates x-xi

First description of acanthosis nigricans.

1890 CE

#4103

Ueber einen Fall von kongenitalem Adenoma sebaceum.

Sebaceous adenoma, type Pringle.

1891 CE–1892 CE

#4104

Infective angeioma or naevus-lupus.

Angioma serpiginosum.

1891 CE

#4105

L’angiocheratoma.

Mibelli gave the name to angiokeratoma although it had already been described by Cottle in 1877. It is also called “Mibelli’s disease”.

1891 CE

#4106

Vier Fälle von Elephantiasis congenita hereditaria.

First description of hereditary oedema of the legs, generally known as “Milroy’s disease” or as “Meige’s disease” (No. 4129).

1892 CE

#4107

Première note et observations préliminaires pour servir d’introduction à l’étude des prurigos diathésiques (dermites multiformes prurigineuses chroniques exacerbantes et paroxystiques, du type du prurigo de Hebra).

“Besnier’s prurigo”.

1890 CE–1892 CE

#4108

Ueber eine eigenartige Form von Atrophia maculosa cutis.

“Jadassohn’s disease” – maculo-papular erythrodermia; Anetoderma erythematosum of Jadassohn.

1892 CE

#4109

An undescribed variety of hereditary oedema.

Independently of Nonne (No. 4106) Milroy described congenital edema of the legs; it has been given the eponym “Milroy’s disease”.

1892 CE

#4110

Drei Favusarten.

Unna described the different fungi of favus. He founded the above-mentioned journal, and he is one of the most eminent figures in modern dermatology.

1893 CE

#4113

Dystrophie papillaire et pigmentaire.

Acanthosis nigricans.

1893 CE

#4114

Contributo allo studio della ipercheratosi dei canali sudoriferi (porokeratosis).

Mibelli is sometimes credited with the original description of porokeratosis (“Mibélli’s disease”), but Neumann described it in 1875 under the name of “dermatitis circumscripta herpetifo…

1893 CE

#4115

Di una ipercheratosi non ancora descritta.

First description of hyperkeratosis excentrica, porokeratosis.

1894 CE

#4116

La teigne trichophytique et la teigne spéciale de Grüby.

1894 CE

#4117

Étude sur le parasite du “pied de Madura”.

Isolation of Streptothrix (Actinomyces) madurae.

1895 CE

#4120

Lichen ruber acuminatus und Lichen ruber planus.

1895 CE

#4121

On the visceral complication of erythema exudativum multiforme.

1896 CE

#4122

Des “tubercules” cutanées.

Darier grouped together, under the heading “tuberculides”, the skin eruptions associated with tuberculosis.

1896 CE

#4123

A peculiar affection of the mucous membrane of the lips and the oral cavity.

Fordyce, remembered for the description of “Fox–Fordyce disease”, also described a pseudocolloid of the buccal mucosa, which is known as “Fordyce’s disease”.

1896 CE

#4125

Sopra una dermatosi telangettode non ancora descritta “Purpura annularis” “Telangectasia follicularis annulata” studio clinico.

Purpuraannularis telangiectodes (Majocchi) first described.

1897 CE

#4126

La séborrhée grasse et la pelade.

Acne bacillus first cultivated.

1898 CE

#4127

On refractory subcutaneous abscesses caused by a fungus possibly related to the sporotricha.

Schenck first described a form of sporotrichosis, due to a pathogenic fungus, which later became known as Sporotrichum beurmanni, after more thorough studies upon it by de Beurmann in 1903.

1899 CE

#4128

Multipelt benignt hud-sarcoid.

The syndrome of benign sarcoid (“Boeck’s sarcoid”) was first established by Boeck. English translation in J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 1899, 17, 543-50. In 1940 Danbolt (Schweiz. med. Wschr., 1947, 77,…

1899 CE

#4129

Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.

“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).

1900 CE

#4130

Ueber Scleroedem.

Scleroedemaadultorum syndrome of Buschke.

1900 CE

#4131

Du naevus variqueux ostéo-hypertrophique.

“Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome”.

1901 CE

#4132

Cutis laxa. Neigung zu Haemorrhagien in der Haut, Lockerung mehrerer Artikulationen.

Description of the syndrome to which the name “Ehlers–Danlos syndrome” was later attached (see also No. 4144), earlier described by Tschernogubow: Cutis laxa, Mh. prakt. Derm., 1892, 14, 76.

1901 CE

#4133

Ueber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Nasenhaut bei Kindern (“Granulosis rubra nasi”).

In his important paper on granulosis rubra nasi, Jadassohn gave the condition its present name. Previously Pringle, 1894, and Luithlen, 1900, had described probable cases.

1901 CE

#4134

A peculiar progressive pigmentary disease of the skin.

Schamberg’s progressive pigmentary dermatosis; first description.

1902 CE

#4135

Les parapsoriasis.

“Brocq’s disease”; he proposed the term “parapsoriasis” for the condition which had previously been described under various names and often mistaken for other dermatoses.

1902 CE

#4137

Two cases of a rare papular disease affecting the axillary region.

“Fox–Fordyce disease”. These writers described a papular, itchy eruption, confined to the axillae, nipples and pubes, and considered to be due to a dysfunction of the apocrine glands.

1902 CE

#4138

Ueber Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans.

Taylor described the condition in 1876 (No. 4069) and Herxheimer and Hartmann named it, separating it from other atrophies which had been called by a number of different names.

1904 CE

#4139

Pityriasis et alopécies pelliculaires.

Classic account of the different varieties of Trichophyton.

1905 CE

#4140

Zur Kenntnis des Virus des Molluscum contagiosum des Menschen.

Juliusberg showed that the virus of molluscum contagiosum passed a Chamberland filter.

1907 CE

#4141

Fall zur Diagnose (Poikiloderma vascularis atrophicans).

First description.

1907 CE

#4142

Innesto positivo con filtrato de verruca volgare.

Ciuffo presented the first demonstration that a cell-free agent could induce a human tumor. He induced human warts on his own hand with a bacteria-free filtrate (a virus) prepared from excised wart tissue. The signifi…

1907 CE

#4143

Ueber eine neue knötchenförmige Hauteruption; Lichen nitidus.

Original description of lichen nitidus, “Pinkus’s disease”. Pinkus first showed a case before the Berlin Dermatological Society on 3 Dec, 1901, and named it “lichen nitidus”.

1908 CE

#4144

Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.

1908 CE

#4145

Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.

Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.

1911 CE

#4146

Érythroplasia du gland.

Erythroplasia of Queyrat, a condition similar to the precancerous dermatosis described by Bowen (No. 4148).

1912 CE

#4147

Les sporotrichoses.

First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).

1912 CE

#4148

Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.

Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.

1917 CE

#4149

Étude sur le lupus pernio et ses rapports avec les sarcoïdes et la tuberculose.

“Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease” (see also Nos. 4095, 4128). Through Schaumann’s paper the systemic nature of sarcoidosis came to be recognized.

1922 CE

#4150

A new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia; report of two cases in children.

“Stevens-Johnson syndrome”, a generalized eruption, continued fever, inflamed buccal mucosa, and severe purulent conjunctivitis. B.A. Thomas (Brit. med. J., 1950, 1, 1393) believes this to be merely a seve…

1925 CE

#4151

A case of relapsing non-suppurative nodular panniculitis, showing phagocytosis of subcutaneous fat-cells by macrophages.

Weber–Christian disease (see No. 4152).

1928 CE

#4152

Relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis.

See No. 4151.

1941 CE

#4153

En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.

Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.

1942 CE

#4154

Dermatite papulo-squameuse atrophiante.

“Degos’s disease”, malignant atrophic papulosis. With J. Delort and R. Tricot. Earlier described by W. Köhlmeier, Frankf. Z. Path., 1940, 54, 413.