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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    notably about the wrist, occur over and over again in precisely the same spots. Many patients will tell us that herpes j^i'eputialis attacks them in the same situation each time The forms of relapsing chancre, the revivify- ing of old sy})hilitic and inflammation are })arallel examples. I might illustrate the tendency by sbowing how gout and rheu- matism attack the same joint at intervals. Sir James Pao*et has o-iven us instances in Ids O O own ])ersonal ex})erieiice of the same observa- tion, and ]\[r. Hutcbinson bas the following j)regnant words in his last work : — “ We “ need not feel mucli difhculty in inter})reting “ tlie phenomena wliich we witness in recui*- “ ring erysipelas and })ersistent elephantiasis. “ They are doubtless examples of the patho- “ logical |)ower of habit and indulgence. Just “ as a man wbo has yielded to intern])erance “ is in danger of becoming a drunkard, so it “ is with his tissues. The oftener thev liave “ yielded to any special process of inflamma- “ tion the more prone are they to yield ao’ain. o I have introduced tins dicfression to brino* O O me to its a])])lication to acne rosacea. If we