Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.

  • Robinson, Tom
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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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    lie has these suggestive words :—“ We should, “ I think, have to reply that in the first “ place, it denotes original and heritable “ peculiarity in the structure of the skin ; next, that its common form in young jier- “ sons usually implies greater or less dis- “ turbance of tone in connexion with the “ sexual system.” But does not acne imply still more? Do we not find in all our cases of physiological acne a laziness (if I may he allowed the ex- jiression) on the part of every secretion of the body, and an altered character in this secre- tion ? These patients are often the subjects of indigestion, are, as they say, liilious ; or in other words, the secreting glands of the stomach are slow in action. The feebleness of the action of the liver modifies the glyco- genic process. Are they not again consti- pated, and does not this constipation ])oint to an altered state of the secretion from the intestinal mucous membrane ? If the patients are women we find the menstrual secretion is scanty, and often much chano^ed in character. O