Note 46 — Chapter VII · SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS
Reading edition
As the result of an experience with thousands of cases of scurvy in the Serbian army, Wiltshire has recently laid great emphasis on this follicular hyperkeratosis. He states that the earliest recognizable sign of scurvy is an enlargement of the hair follicles of the inner and anterior aspects of the thigh and upper leg, which show numerous conical elevations about the size of a pin’s head. A hair, broken or unbroken, frequently pierces the follicle.