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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    riicnwo. lo:} the prt'seiit time, wlio lived in (Vyloii for twenty years. Slie lias round patches of eczema about her upper extremities, and wluat is curious, these jiatches undei'o'o the most mai’ked chanires, which alternate reo-ularlv with cojiious diarrluea. ()f the two t'vils mv jiatient jirefers the diarrh<ea. I had some mismvino's when I commenced this paper, about the possibility of ai'ran^’ino' the matter which was iloatincx about in mv brain, in a form which would convev to others V any jirecise (»|)inions on in-italile skins, and which miii-ht to a sliHit extent clear the Li’round of some of the obstacles which so jairelv make the subject of dermatoloo-v ohscurt' and uninvitinm 'riiis misi'ivina’ is intensitied by a ])erusal of what I have wi’itten. I am conscious that 1 have ad- vanced hut little, and what every o-entleman (ii'esent knows as w(‘ll as 1 do myself Hut I have tried to kt'eji in view the caust's of what is known as prurii;-o. Hndouhtedly the no- menclatui’e of skin disease can he carried by ino’enuitv and research to a much further extent than it now^ is: Imt is not this dividiiuf and sill)-di vidinn* ()f classes most conlusiiif]^ ?