Lectures on cosmetic treatment : a manual for practitioners / by Edmund Saalfeld ; translated by J.F. Halls Dally ; with an introduction and notes by P.S. Abraham.

Date:
1910
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Credit: Lectures on cosmetic treatment : a manual for practitioners / by Edmund Saalfeld ; translated by J.F. Halls Dally ; with an introduction and notes by P.S. Abraham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the nose, and as a resuit a dilatation of the vessels.1 The old idea that drinkers not infrequently suffer frorn rosacea is to some extent justified, since any congestion of the face, particularly if frequently repeated in the case of a seborrhceic skin, is suffi- cient to convert a temporary into a continuous plethora. But not only wine and beer produce such a harmful influence, but also hot drinks, such as coffee and tea, and too hot foods, particularly if they are strongly salted or seasoned. The subjective symptoms of the patients are slight, and consist only in temporary burning sensations. In well-marked cases the disfigure- ment of the nose is greater, and the bulbous nose, rhinophyma, develops. Under these circumstances the nose is enlarged as a whole, and shows bulbous flabby excrescences together with comedones and acne pustules. Without entering into the more exact histological details of rhinophyma, I will only mention that it involves an excessive development of normal sebaceous glands as well as of an over- growth of the connective tissue. The mouths of the glands are either obliterated or have become too narrow to permit of the free exit of the secretion. Many newly formed capillaries are often present. The treatment of rosacea should, in the first place, be directed to the cause. Apart from the avoidance or removal of the sources of injury already men- 1 The bismuth mixture [see Note on p. 10] is especially uselul in rosaceous acne. (P. S. A.)
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