The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates.

Date:
1906
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Credit: The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin / By George Thomas Jackson, ... With 99 illustrations and 4 plates. 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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    may also produce similar acne-like lesions when applied externally. Acne Atrophica is a term ap]died to the scars left by acne, and to acne necrotica. The first needs no descrip- tion the second will be found further on. Acne Cachecticorum is rather to be regarded as a scrof- uloderm than an acne, as it probably has little to do with the sebaceous glands. It occurs in broken-down or scrof- ulous subjects, and is particularly prone to appear upon tlie extremities, though it may be disseminated over the whole body. It takes the form of small, congested or dark-red, sluggish, flat papules and papulo-pustules that run a slow course, break down, perhaps ulcerate, and leave small depressed cicatrices. They may aggregate into patches. Occurring on the fingers, these will often be con- gested and clubbed. The lesions may appear in crops. It occurs in children as well as in adults. It is one of the rare forms of the disease, and requires tonic remedies such as cod-liver oil and iron for its cure. Acne Cornea. See Keratosis follicularis. Acn4 Fluente. See Seborrhoea oleosa. Acne Follicularis. See Comedo. Acne Frontalis. See Acne necrotica. Acne Hypertrophica. See Rosacea. Acne, Iodic and Bromic. See Dermatitis medicamentosa. Acne Keloid. See Dermatitis papillaris capillitii. Acne Keratosa. H. R. Crocker describes this disease as an eruption of finger-nail sized, well-defined, excoriated jiatches covered with blood crusts located on the cheeks and chin, specially near the mouth. It leaves white, hax’d scars. It is usually a symmetrical eruption, but the lesions may come'out singly or in very small numbers at irregular intervals. The individual lesion begins as a red, firm, tender nodule upon which a pustule forms and dries into a scab. Imbedded in the lesion are one or more horny or soft conical plugs about one-twelfth of an inch long, which
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