Hebra

Under this name Hebra has described a disease that is wholly different from the foregoing, and the principal characters of which are as follows:

The skin presents a persistent deep-red coloration, distributed over the entire surface, but without papules, vesicles, or any exudation. Scales are found in small numbers, but do not become a prominent feature, of the affection.

The local subjective symptoms are insignificant.

The progress of the disease is remarkably slow, and in its early periods the general health is not notably affected; but little by little there is a gradual weakening of the vital forces, and fatal marasmus marks the termination of the patient's sufferings.



It will be seen from the foregoing that the affections described under the same name by the eminent French and German authors differ from each other in every important respect, and are, in fact, quite distinct diseases.

Dr. Piffard has met with a number of cases of Devergie's disease, but only a single undoubted example of the malady described by Hebra.