Path. [mod.L., f. L. urtīca URTICA.] = NETTLE-RASH.

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1771.  Encycl. Brit., III. 59/1. Exanthemata, or eruptive fevers; comprehending … 7. Scarlatina; 8. Urticaria.

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1800.  Med. Jrnl., IV. 201. Diseases admitted under the Care of the Physicians … [included] Urticaria, 1 [case].

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1842.  T. H. Burgess, Man. Dis. Skin, 52. Urticaria is one of the few cutaneous eruptions which can be traced distinctly to its source.

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1880.  Lancet, 4 Sept., 406/1. The urine shortly becomes scanty and of a deep orange tint, and the urticaria then appears.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 484. The name urticaria was applied to this affection because a process of wheal-formation … is often a conspicuous clinical feature.

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  attrib. and Comb.  1881.  Lancet, 18 June, 990/2. Evanescent urticaria wheals and tubercles.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 609. Every prurigo papule has an urticaria-like basis.

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