sts. The oozing is usually more
or less continuous, or the disease may decline, the crusts be cast off,
to be quickly followed by a new crop of vesicles. In those cases in
which the process is markedly acute, considerable swelling and [oe]dema
are present. Scattered papules, vesico-papules and pustules may usually
be seen upon the involved area or about the border.

The face in infants (_crusta lactea_, or _milk crust_, of older
writers), the neck, flexor surfaces and the fingers are its favorite
localities.

#What course does vesicular eczema pursue?#

Usually chronic, with acute exacerbations. Not infrequently it passes
into eczema rubrum.

#Describe the symptoms of pustular eczema.#

Pustular eczema (_eczema pustulosum_, _eczema impetiginosum_) is probably
the least common of all the varieties. It is similar, although usually
less actively inflammatory, in its symptoms to eczema vesiculosum, the
lesions being pustular from the start or developing from preexisting
vesicles; not infrequently the eruption is mixed, the pustules
predominating. There is a marked tendency to rupturing of the lesions,
the discharge drying to thick, yellowish, brownish or greenish crusts.

Its most common sites are the scalp and face, especially in young people
and in those who are ill-nourished and strumous.

#What course does pustular eczema pursue?#

Usually chronic, continuing as the same type, or passing into eczema
rubrum.

#Describe the symptoms of squamous eczema.#

Squamous eczema (_eczema squamosum_) may be defined as a clinical
variety, the chief symptoms of which are a variable degree of scaliness,
more or less thickening, infiltration, and redness, with commonly a
tendency to cracking or fissuring of the skin, especially when the
disease is seated about the joints. It is developed, as a rule, from the
erythematous or papular type. Itching is slight or intense.

The disease is not uncommon upon the scalp.

#What is the course of squamous eczema?#

Essentially chronic.

[Illustration: Fig. 23. Eczema of the Face and Scalp.]

#Describe the symptoms of eczema rubrum.#

Eczema rubrum is characterized by a red, raw-looking, weeping, oozing or
discharging surface, attended with more or less inflammatory thickening,
infiltration and swelling; the exudation, consisting of serum, sometimes
bloody, dries into thick yellowish or reddish-brown crusts. At one time
the whole diseased area may be hidden under a m