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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    amongst my own friends I often speak of advanced stages of Acne Rosacea as “ Bar- dol])liian noses.” The word Acne is iim juestionably derived from tlie Greek clkvtj (Acne), one of its meanings beino- bloom or elHorescence. The O ft eru})tion on the face accompanied by pim- ples was also called by the Greeks lavOo'i (ianthos) i.e. of a violet colour. The Romans called these ]nm])les varl cupevosi, which is held to be a corruption of goutlierous, or rose- like drops. “Jolly noses” must have existed at all times, but as they did not interfere with the health, they did not claim tlie attention of tlie physician or surgeon, but afforded material for the satirist and the })oets, as we find in tlie works of the ancients. The red nose was then, as now, ascribed either to tlie votaries of A^enus or Bacchus. It remained for modern dermatologists to classify them. Hebra distinguished them, so to speak, into beer noses, brandy noses, wine noses, &c., a classification wbich is not adapted to actual experience. C'elsus, Paulus .^Rgineta, Actius, Femelius,