Excerpt from The British Journal of Dermatology, Vol. 24: July, 1912French dermatologists questioned Hebra's contention that the papules precede the itching. Vidal preferred to style the prurigo Of Hebra as a lichen. Besnier included among the prurigos many other itching conditions which he separated from the eczema group, qualifying them all as diathetic prurigos, provoked or maintained by an abnormal mode Of nutrition.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.