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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    Again, very many of these patients complain of sexual debility manifesting itself in many degrees, at times even amounting to imj^o- tence. If we take a higher liight we shall, if we know them intimately, discover that they are slow of ]')erception, very often unusually lazy, and intolerable sleepers ; and not a few from the want of activity in the excreting organs, glide into gout as they become older. Let us ask ourselves one other question. What is it that detei'inines the introduc- tion of acne and what its decline ? We know as a matter of universal observa- tion that as the sexual life of the organism ajiproaches, the human l)eing develops a second cro]) of hair on the pubis, axillse and limbs ; and in the male sex on the cheeks, chin, and upper li]). And where this activity spends itself in the ])roduction of vigorous hair, the condition is a natural one; hut where this process is spent in such situations as the cheeks, the nose, forehead, and chin, where hairs are not ])roduced, we find acne spots ap})ear. In women you will find the situa- tions where the hair grows on the male sex very often occupied by acne, and in our sex
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