Excerpt from An Analysis of Five Thousand Cases of Skin Disease: With Remarks Upon Some of the Principal Groups and CasesThe class of cases presenting themselves for treatment at the skin department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, represented below, is different in some respects from that found in some other dispensaries, as it is drawn from a wider district, patients coming to it from a large portion of New England. The relative preponderance of foreigners over natives is thereby considerably reduced, and the proportion of serious over trivial affections correspondingly increased, as the number of the latter seek ing relief from a distance is naturally small. The nature of the cases, however, is as. Diverse as is usually presented in such lists, representing, as they do, such various relations of life for it is by no means the poor alone who avail themselves of the gratuitous advice of the department. Most notable differences, however, will be discovered in the' character of the diseases by comparing the list below with those drawn from the private case-book of the dermatologist, the extremes being, on the one hand, the representatives of poverty and filth, on the other of luxury and the refinement of bodily care. But no one without the experience derived from the study of both classes can form an intelligent opinion of the nature of the cutaneous diseases of any community.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.