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Excerpt from The New-Hampshire Journal of Medicine, Vol. 5: January to Decembe, R 1855 In studying cutaneous diseases we find that many causes act direct ly on the skin - as climate and seasons, temperature, all poisons, friction, artificial heat, uncleanly habits, &c., and many of these casual eruptions are well known secondarily or sympathetically to be transmitted to the mucous membranes: in precisely the same way we find diseased action in these membranes from causes directly applied to their surface, producing sympathetically or secondarily cutaneous eruptions, as for example, roseola, urticaria and strophulus from noxious ingesta. Many cutaneous affections are hereditary and then the play of sympathy between these two membranes is very marked and the strife for the domicil Of the disease is often quite eccentric. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.