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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$|)a])illoina of tlie urethral orifice, 'which coiii- j)letely cured a loiio'-Ktandino’ case of vulvar pi'uritus. 1 tell this story 'with some shame, l)ecause 1 had treated in vaii\ this case for many months, and it was not until my ])a- tient had passed into other hands that the cause was discovered. I am aware that the microscopist has dis- covered a bacillus in cases of ])ruritus of the vidva, hut whether this is the cause or the eflect of the condition has still to he deter- mined. I will now ))ass on to the treatment of prurioiuous skins, lly far the most impor- tant element in treatino- anv irritable state of the skin is to use every endeavour to sto]) the scratching. This is not difficult with those who have work, hut with the youno, the aoed, and tlie idle, oi‘ in other words, with those who have little work and less will, your difficulty is almost insui'- mountahle. It is amono^st this ])ortion of the human race that we see the most itchino- skins, d'he workino'-man (1 use the word in its laro’est sio-iiificance) who has an irritable statt' of skin, itches most after his work is$