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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    The cutis at the apex, and also of the nose, is also unusually rich in its blood supply, and also in the number and size of the sweat ducts and sebaceous follicles, and in this position the skin is so firmly united with its cellular substratum that it cannot easily he detached from it. This solidity of its tissue explains the painful tension which accompanies inflammation of these parts. There are many other clinical phe- nomena which have long attracted the notice of the jfliysician to the face; such as the colour of the cheeks in })neumonia, and in the febrile stages of phthisis. The pinched and pallid face of cholera, and its aspect in summer diarrhcea, the groujiing of small-pox ])ustules on and around the nose all demonstrate a })roclivity foi’ this tell-tale spot. Again we look at the no.strils in the last stage of ca})illary hronchitis, or the suflbca- tive catarrh of children as an index of the amount of carbonized blood in the body, and we do not look in vain. The permanent vascular, or rather varicose dilatation, as noticed in cardiac disease, is well worthv of observation in this reLuon.