Pustular variety of eczema

The pustular variety of eczema pursues the same course and passes through the same stages as the vesicular, and differs from it only in the character of the exudation and the color of the crusts in the second stage. Instead of a transparent, lymphy exudation we have a purulent one, and the crusts are of a greenish color. In the vesicular form the number of leucocytes in the exudation is limited, while in the pustular they are abundant. The third stage of both varieties is identical, and if a case be seen in this stage it is impossible to determine, except by the patient's recital, whether the eruption had been characterized by vesicles or pustules.