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LUPUS AND OTHER TUBERCULIDES.




Many years ago the fact was noted by dermatological clinicians that lupus vulgaris was frequently associated with pul-

Fig. 36.—A group of tubercles.

monary phthisis, and recent microscopical research has demonstrated that in both affections the same bacillus may be found. Lupus vulgaris is therefore one of the clinical forms of cutane-