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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    I am anxious to impress tins fact, because it has been disputed whether acne does ever itch. I will now enter into the subject of these constitutional conditions which lend a local colour to the progress of acne, and in the first instance, 1 should select scrofula as the most common caiise of the exaggeration and pronounced of these influences. It is a pecu- liarity in all scrofulous manifestations that the process of inflammation Is slow ; and as a consequence not associated with very high con- stitutional disturbance. We often meet with large collections of jnis in the scrofulous, which are almost paiidess, and which are not attended by any elevation of tem])erature. We see this in the abscesses about lymphatic glands, and it is for this reason that we use the term “ cold abscess.” Scrofula is attain a dia- thesis which, as a rule, is develoj)ed during the period of life when the functions are the most active, that is to say, in the ])eriod of growth. We speak of senile scrofula, a well marked series of manifestations, which we meet with in advanced life. We owe Sir James Jkmet a O tribute of gratitude for haviim been the first
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