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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    joints, under the breasts, the waist, or where there is any constriction. III. AW the cases occur Avith more or less symmetry. IV. They consist in the first instance of %/ angular raised papules, which co- alesce. V. They do not become eczematous or scaly. VI. They are alwaA^s associated with Avhite spots, or white lines in the mucous membrane of the mouth or tono’ue. O I haye not seen any case where the whole cutaneous area has been inyolyed ; such as are represented in the atlas of skin diseases, published by the late Tilbury Fox (fig. xiy.), or such as ai’e described by Wilson, Hillier and others. There can he no doubt that Lichen ruber is a branch of the constitutional skin dis- eases, and illustrates tlie well recoo'nized law that the efiects of an irritation can in no way he <a guide as to the irritant. Cold water Avill cause an eczema in some skins, and, giyen a ]Arocliyity towards a skin disease.