| Popis: |
THE HISTORIC aspects of the histology of the bullous diseases and the accompanying casuistics have been thoroughly reviewed by Civatte, Lever, 1 Director, and others. * It still is a puzzle to me as to why the microscopic picture and pathologic morphology of these conditions, which so many observers today regard as diagnostic, were not appreciated by earlier masters, who looked for the very features to which so much positivity is nowadays attached, and who looked for them in relation to the clinical pictures. Now, recognizable clinical entities exist only if recognizable patterns recur with a measure of regularity; otherwise we have nothing but hopeless chaos. If there is in addition a measure of regularity and parallelism between the clinical patterns and the histologic findings, then, and then only do the microscopic features of accepted "clinical entities" have meaning for us. I, therefore, take for granted the recognition of |
