Lectures on acne, acne rosacea, lichen and prurigo / by Tom Robinson, Physician to St. John's Hospital for Skin Diseases.

  • Robinson, Tom
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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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    it at once as a new growth, invading the sebaceous follicles, and being a veiy near relation of Lupus eiythematosis and Acne rosacea. But h}^ far the majority of cases of acne are not associated with either of these dia- theses. I have stated before in niy lecture, and 1 must again repeat, that three factors are essential to the production of acne. I. A thickness and greasiness of the skin. II. Activity in the sebaceous and hair follicles. III. An abnormal state of the glandular secretions. Tlie thickness and greasiness of the skin indicate that we have a large development of the sel)aceous glands ; we find these condi- tions in the greater number of cases in those with dark sallow skins, hut there are some fair-haired people with thick and greasy skins. Mr. Hutchinson has in Ids work on the “ Pedigree of Disease,” a work whicli came as a revelation to me, a jxii’agraph on acne, as a revealing symptom, and in answer to the <1 nest ion— M hat does acne in its various forms imply ?