The skin in health and disease.

Date:
[1888?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The skin in health and disease. 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 SKIN IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. CHAPTER I. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE SKIN. THE object of the present little book is fourfold; first, to correct certain popular prejudices in re- gard to the subject of diseases of the skin; second, to give directions in regard to the care of the skin in health and for the prevention of disease; third, to afford a certain amount of popular information as to the principal diseases which affect the skin, their re- cognition and home management; and, lastly, to give directions whereby the patient may assist the practitioner in the cure of this class of diseases by his diet, hygiene, and mode of life, together with the manner he should himself treat the diseased portions. These points will best be considered more or less conjointly; and we will therefore divide our subject into two main parts, as indicated in the title. First, treating of the skin in health, its functions, and the care to be given it; and, second, the diseases to which it is liable, their recognition and management. In order to properly understand what is to follow, a