ON HERPES.?BY A. GLIRDEN.

September 1, 1874]

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

By

Surgeon, Saharunpore.

During the five years ending with 1873 4,493 cases of skin disease were treated in the Saharunpore Dispensary, being in the ratio of 9 per cent, to the total admissions that

during period, herpes. non-contagious skin

and of these 116, or 2'6 per cent., were cases of Neumann (1) defines herpes as " an acute

affection which runs

formation of vesicles

course, and is attended with the blebs in groups on an erythematous

typical

a

or

surface, the efflorescence being usually preceded by symptoms The eruption is accompanied by burning pain, which is so intense in many forms of herpes as to resemble neuralgia ; this pain may continue even long after the disappearance of the eruption." He divides herpes into five varieties :? (?).?Herpes labialis seu facialis. (?).? prsepuatialis seu progenialis, iris. (c).? ? circinatus. (