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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    Ambrose Pare, Guido de Chauliac, Nicholas Florentinus, Daniel Turner and Lorry, have each described face eruptions, which evidently Include Acne rosacea. A translation of Celsus, lib. vi. cap. v. De van's et Icnti- ciiUs, et ephelide, et corium cuvantiorihiis, is all I will quote. “ It is almost a folly to treat of pimples and lentils and ej^helides, yet the anxiety of women concernino’ their beauty cannot l)e O t. oyercome ; of such as I have already men- tioned vari and lentils are commonly known, while that species the Greeks called semion, being of a more ruddy colour, and more unecpial on the surface. But the ephelides is known by few, being’ nothing more than’ a certain asperity and hardness of a l)ad colour. The others (pimples and ephelides) appear only on the face ; the lentils appear sometimes in other parts.” Turner (De MovJms Ci(taneis, London, 1721, 3rd edition), was evidently well ac- (|uainted with the disease. In the fourth chapter of his work he treats of diseases incident to the skin of the face, and he ob- serves,—