names _mycosis fungoides_, _inflammatory fungoid neoplasm_, and several
others. It is characterized usually by symptoms of an eczematous,
urticarial, and erysipelatous nature, and by the sudden or gradual
appearance of pinkish or reddish, tubercular, nodular, lobulated, or
furrowed tumors or flat infiltrations, which may disappear by involution
or may be followed by ulceration; several or a larger number of the
growths present a mushroom, papillomatous, or fungoid appearance,
sometimes roughly resembling the cut part of a tomato. In most cases the
tumor stage of the malady is not reached for two or more years; in
exceptional instances, however, they appear in the first few months. The
lesions, especially in their early stages, are, as a rule, accompanied
with more or less burning and itching.

#State the prognosis and treatment of granuloma fungoides.#

The malady may last for several years or much longer, a fatal
termination, with rare exceptions, sooner or later taking place. After
the tumor stage is well established, the patient usually succumbs in
from several months to one or two years.

[Illustration: Fig. 65. Granuloma Fungoides.]

Treatment consists of tonics, if indicated, and the administration of
arsenic, preferably hypodermically, and Roentgen-ray exposures, along
with the application of mild antiseptics, and operative interference
when necessary or advisable.

#CLASS VII.--NEUROSES.#

#Hyperaesthesia.#

#What is hyperaesthesia?#

By hyperaesthesia is meant increased cutaneous sensibility. It is usually
more or less localized, and is met with as a symptom in functional and
organic nervous diseases.

#Dermatalgia.#
(_Synonyms:_ Neuralgia of the Skin; Rheumatism of the Skin; Dermalgia.)

#What do you understand by dermatalgia?#

By dermatalgia is meant a tender or painful condition of the skin
unattended by structural change. It is commonly limited to a small area,
and is usually symptomatic of functional or organic nervous disease. As
an idiopathic affection it is looked upon as of a rheumatic origin.

Treatment depends upon the cause.

#Anaesthesia.#

#What is anaesthesia?#

Anaesthesia is a diminution, comparative or complete, of cutaneous
sensibility. It is usually localized, and is met with in the course of
certain nervous affections. It is also encountered in leprosy,
morph[oe]