Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.

  • Robinson, Tom
Date:
1884
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Credit: Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His skin was a good deal damaged l)y his nails, blit with the exception of a condition which the laity know as goose skin, he had no manifestation of disease. The imtahility was always relieved when he was in a hot liath ; lotions and sedatives afforded him but little relief He got thinner, terribly de- pressed, and in the September of tlie same year he became aphasic without loss of con- sciousness, and in October suddenly hemi- ])legic, and soon died. Living as I do in an ancient part of the town 1 frecpiently see men advanced in years, wlio live in secluded rooms about Gray’s Inn or the other inns; men whose nerve centres are giving way, and 1 can call to mind several instances where itching of the skin has been the first warning of the beginning of the end. Eliminating from this group all tliose in which the cause of the itching was dis- covered, I have been driven to the conclusion that this special cla.ss of case, which comes on suddenly and without any discoverable ex- citing cause, is in reality due to disease in the nerve centre, and mv observation would ^ */