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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    rnnuGo. <le))i'(‘ssi<)iis increased, and with the most troid)lt‘S<)ine iiTitation. But in tliese cases, if our |)atients are attentive to their symp- toms. and it we (piestion them narrowly, we shall he able to find spots which are so dis- tinctly obstructed hair tollicles that I cannot <louht the im])risoned hair is a^min the source of irritation. There are undoubtedly other e.Kcitino- causes, such as ])iles, ulcer, polypus, worms, or fissure ot the rectum, which .set up .and keep Uj) tlu^ irritation. Sitting* occupa- tions au’ain jtroduce this itchino- in some ca.ses. In others it is sim])ly an e.x'pression of a !>eneral (‘czematous tendency, and for the.se rea.sons must he tre.ated on its mei’its, d’he j)ruritus of the vulv.a which sometimes masks the hap])iness of a woman’s life, has many .sources of oi-imn. It is commonly « O hut an e.xpression of a u,’eneral dartrtHis dia- thesis, locally determined by sj)ecial anatomi- cal conditions. It seems unu.sually common at the climactei’ic |)eriod of life, hut in .some instances it will Ik* found to he associated with a growth in the urethra. One of the mo.st hi-illiant things I ever .saw accomplished was the discovery and e.xcision of a small