A case of nævoid elephantiasis.

Ricketts, Benjamin Merrill, 1858-1926.

Journal : Journal of cutaneous and genito-urinary diseases ; vol. 7.

New York : D. Appleton and company, 1889.

Description : 140-142 p. ; ill.: 1 phot. ; 26 cm.

Photograph : 1 photoengraving in-text (unverified).

Subject : Skin — Primary lymphedema ; Naevoid.

Notes :

• Author caption: BY B. MERRILL RICKETTS M. D., Professor of Dermatology and Syphilography at Cincinnati Polyclinic, Lecturer on Plastic Surgery at Miami Medical College, and Visiting Dermatologist to the German Protestant Hospital.
• Medical degree, Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 1881.
• Elected, chair of minor surgery, Miami Medical College, 1888.
• Contributing Founder, Cincinnati Polyclinic, 1888.
• Professor of dermatology and syphilography, Cincinnati Polyclinic.
• Index Medicus: 20408421790.

While attending the International Medical Congress at Washington, D. C., I had the pleasure of showing the photograph to Unna, of Hamburg ; Justus Andeer, of Munich; Thin, of London, and many others who have great clinical advantages, but none had ever seen a case where the disease had appeared in a similar position.—Page 142.

Rickett's subject was a 42 year-old farmer with a primary lymphedema that began in infancy and affected the entire lower portions of his face. If he had brought his photograph to France, they might have directed his attention to a paper by Montmeja published in 1869 and titled, Nœvus vasculaire (Vide intra: »»).