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Title: Diseases of the mouth; for physicians, dentists, medical and dental students
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Zinsser, Ferdinand
Subjects: Mouth Syphilis
Publisher: New York, Rebman
Contributing Library: Dentistry - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rpes Labialis (Herpes ofthe Lip) This patient had syphilis and was given an intra-venous injection of salvarsan. He reacted the sameevening with a high fever. Next morning the herpesappeared. On the vermilion and the bordering skina group of small vesicles appeared which partly co-alesced. The contents of the vesicles, at first clear,quickly coagulated. The surrounding skin wasslightly congested. In this case these manifestations,characteristic of herpes, cannot easily be mistakenfor the characteristic manifestations of syphilis. Onecan perceive in the plate the way the herpes began atthe arched borders of the lesion. When the herpesexists only as a single group of small vesicles on thevermilion or mucous membrane (especially in its laststage when the vesicles have ruptured and the coagu-lated contents are discharged) it may resemble aneroded mucous patch. It is not always easy to diag-nose herpes, close examination and study of the caseare frequently necessary. 192 Plate XXX. Fig. 36
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PLATE XXXI Figure 37.—Aphthous Ulcer (Aphthous Sto-matitis) Figure 38.—Angina Foliicularis Catarrhalis(Follicular Tonsillitis) Figure 37.—Aphthous Ulcer (Aphthous Sto-matitis) On the middle of the lower lip is a flat hollowed-out little ulcqr with a yellowish-white covering and anacutely inflamed border. It was very painful andhad a sudden onset. The sudden onset, the pain andthe active inflammatory reaction existing togetherdisfavor a diagnosis of syphilis, but when the pain andinflammatory reaction are absent, it is difficult todiagnose this lesion from an erosive mucous patch.Aphthous ulcers of the mouth occasionally occur insyphilitics. The finding of the treponema pallidumin the lesion, which is always easy m erosive mucouspatches, makes the diagnosis. Figure 38.—Angina Foilicuiaris Catarrhaiis(Follicular Tonsillitis) In this case there is an acute inflammation of theisthmus of the fauces accompanied with fever. Thereis much congestion and swelling so that the isthmusof t

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