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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    ])otency and acne has induced the laity to attribute tliese spots to chastity, and I have even heard this view supported by our own l)rethren. But there are manifold debilitatino' in- O fluences other than these which foster acne spots. The exhaustion induced by study, l^y late hours, by had living, by too close con- finement, by Avant of exercise in the fresh air ; eacli one of these will occur to us all as being more general in their influence upon acne s]Aots than the exhaustion induced by sexual indulgences or bad practices. It is very interesting to note in passing how dermatologists have looked upon the causes of acne from different standpoints; those who are disposed to vieAv the human race from a gloomy view attribute the disease to sexual excess or masturbation, whilst the optimists attrihute it to excessh^e chastity and over-continence. 1 have one other form of acne to brinof before your notice this evening, that is the second on my list. “The acne of the Climac- tei-ic jieriod of life.” I have made a separate grou]) of these cases because they stand out %/