Quotation from: Manual of SurgeryWritten by: Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson |
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_The Appendages of the Skin._--The _hair_ loses its gloss, becomes dry and brittle, and readily falls out, either as an exaggeration of the normal shedding of the hair, or in scattered areas over the scalp (_syphilitic alopoecia_). The hair is not re-formed in the scars which result from ulcerated lesions of the scalp. The _nail-folds_ occasionally present a pustular eruption and superficial ulceration, to which the name _syphilitic onychia_ has been applied; more commonly the nails become brittle and ragged, and they may even be shed.
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