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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    We, in this country, do not doubt that tins is a contagious disease; on the continent they dispute the fact, but there is so much clinical testimony to support the accuracy of the contagious view, that it is impossible not to accejrt it, although the actual contagion has not yet been discovered. I'hat this in- teresting disease is due to the invasion of a sebaceous gland by a parasite, I do not doul)t. The button lioles in the ])earl l)utton-like tumours are the orifices of sebaceous olands. I might also allude to the IMeihomian cvsts of the eyelids, to the steatoma of the head, and of other regions, as maladies which are due to an almormal state of the sebaceous glands. The varieties of balanitis and of pruritus vulvic, ai'e many of them sim])ly due to a want of integritv in the sebaceous secre- tion. After this very wide digression allow me to go back to what is accepted as acne. Acne vulgaris, if you like. Young men and women come before us at al)out the age of thirteen or fourteen for spots on their faces. You find these s])ots are situated in the situations where good hairs 2