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

Robinson, Tom

Date:: 1884

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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$docile when you scnitcli theii- l)acks. Tlie ti'ont is taken hy tickling in some counties, a tiict not jj-enerallv known, hut noticed 1)\ Shakspeare and Tennyson. Dean Swift said, in his “ Polite Conversa- tion,” that eatino- and scratchino- were two thinu’s we onlv'^ had to commence doinir and we sliould ])rolong. 'J'here is ])i-ol)al)ly more siirniHcance in the «.)hservation than even this O sid)lime wit saw himself. 1 should detain the Societv much too lono if I were to even mention the manifold causes of a prnriginons state of the skin, hut I must call attention to the distressiim' itchinir of the skin which comes on in cases of drt)j)sy t)f the lejxs and varicose veins occun-ini'- in those who have thick skiiis. This itching is very •commonly the greatest annoyance these pa- tients ex[)erience, :ind is most ditlicnlt to suhdiie. I will just call attention to the prurigiiious state of some skins which is set up hy fleas 4ind other irritatiim’ animals. In anv case v* we must search most caretidlv for these ■causes. We must also he alive to the kind of o’arments worn ; some rouo'li flannels and 7$