Affects face, eyelids, cheeks. Symptoms: papules, vesicles, dry, rigid skin, scurf, glistening, shedding hairs. Treatment: as in eczema; antiseptics.

The cheeks and forehead are the most liable to suffer in this affection, yet the eyelids and the parts below the inner canthus may participate in connection with the escape of tears and the disease of the lachrymal sac or ducts. It has been seen in the young when strangles had merged into skin eruption, but also in the aged and independently of that affection.

Symptoms. Following strangles the papules or vesicular eruption may have passed leaving the skin thick, rigid, dry and scurfy. The pigment may be increased and the hairs are usually shed in connection with atrophy of their follicles and rubbing of the itching surface, so that the cuticle is smooth, glabrous and even glistening. In implication of the lachrymal apparatus, there is shedding of hairs beneath the eye or the wet matted condition of those that remain.

Treatment. In strangles use a lotion of silver nitrate or sodium hyposulphite to destroy the local infection. In other cases treat as for ordinary eczema.