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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    “ I have gradually lost my hair on the siir- ‘‘ face of the body, Jind partially on my face “ and scalp. I may also add tliat when I have had a severe fit of sweatino- I am verv “ cold. Sleep at night is more the exce})tio]» ‘‘ than the rule, and though I eat heartily 1 “ lose flesh. My father and mother died of “ cholera when I was an infant. I am without “ l)rothers or sisters.” “ When a child 1 suflered much from eru])- “ tions on my face, and the skin on the backs “ of mv hands has always been verv coarse.” I have several notes about this most inter- esting case, but 1 will not trouble the Society with more than the last, which were made on Mav 14th of this vear. They are as \> K‘ %/ follows :— “ He complains of a continual sweating and ‘‘ irritation of the skin, especially is it irritable “ when his skin is dry. He is losing flesh, “ his urine is creamy (it was alkaline and “ loaded with amorphous phosphates). The “ skin is decidedly better now than it was in “ the winter, l)ut he is worse when the wea- “ ther is extreme. After he has been sweating “ he feels chilly. He has a slight cough.”