TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Connective tissue disease and the systemic vasculitides A1 - Murtagh, John A1 - Rosenblatt, Jill A1 - Coleman, Justin A1 - Murtagh, Clare PY - 2022 T2 - John Murtagh’s General Practice, 8th Edition AB - In its more aggravated forms diffuse scleroderma is one of the most terrible of all human ills. Like Tithonus to ‘wither slowly’ and like him to be ‘beaten down and marred and wasted’, until one is literally a mummy, encased in an ever shrinking, slow contracting skin of steel, is a fate not pictured in any tragedy.SIR WILLIAM OSLER 1898 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - Sydney, Australia Y2 - 2024/10/09 UR - murtagh.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1186895061 ER -