Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.
- Robinson, Tom
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![AC2^E. the density of their walls. I allude to them in this lecture because I have not heen able to assign them to any other malady hut acne. Similar cysts are seen behind the ear. If we are to recognize every altei ed state of the sebaceous secretion as acne, wliich I foi one would encouiuge, we must take many diseases into the grou]). In early mtancy we find the foetus covered with a layer of greasy matter, which is the sebaceous secretion that has been accumulating in the child during its intra-uterine life, and we know how much this secretion varies in ([uantity and consist- ence ; sometimes it is so tenacious that the nurse has difficulty in washing it otl, in others, it is absent, then tho skin will he found dry and inelastic. When the hair is developing on the crown, we often hnd the .sebaceous matter accumu- lated on the summit, in a thick, dirty cake, which nives much trouble, and in those who have an eczematous ])roclivity, this crust heeins an eczema. In tact, the eczema ot in- fants has its origin, I believe, in all cases in the irritation induced by an altered sebaceous secretion; it is too dense, and that is why cod-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29012909_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
