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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    IC^ANNOT lielp thinking that every intel- ligent member of onr ])rofession mnst at times have l)een sorely puzzled as to what sifjniticance he conld attach to the snl^stantive word pnn-igo. I find on a search into the literature of the subject that the word has been ap})lied to tlie most variable conditions of the cutaneous sur- face. At one period we find almost any skin disease which itched was designated prurigo. Later on (I allude to the time of Willan and Bateman) when a new era in dermatology commenced, we find all the varieties of lichen figuring in tlieir atlas of skin diseases as jiru- rigo with a fancifid adjective stuck on. 'fhus we find in their atlas, plate VI.— Fio', i. Pruricro mitis. O O Figs. ii. & iii. Prurigo formicans and })ru- rigo senilis. G