The treatment of the various forms of acne / by George H. Rohé.

  • Rohé, George H. (George Henry), 1851-1899.
Date:
[1883]
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Credit: The treatment of the various forms of acne / by George H. Rohé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE TREATMENT OF THE By GEORGE H. ROHfi, M. D. Professor of Hygiene and Clinical Dermatology, College of Physicians >nd Surgeons, Balti¬ more ; Member of the American Dermatological Association ; of the American Public Health Association, etc. During the period of puberty many of the organs of the body take on a new development. The sebaceous glands of the skin partici-'* pate in this growth, and as a consequence, a greater or less degree of functional disturbance of these organs is likely to result. The most common form of this functional disturbance consists in an alteration in character and quantity of the sebaceous secretion. The sebum secreted is thicker and is not so readily extruded from the gland- ducts. These latter become filled with little plugs of the secretion which distend the ducts, and thus produce small papules, with some¬ times a slight depression of the summit, which is colored black or brown. This little spot of color is the mouth of the duct filled with the secretion, and the discoloration depends upon the deposit of dirt— dust, carbon, etc., which has adhered to the end of the greasy plug. This is the first stage, in the vast majority of instances, of the disease known as acne. The French writers term it acne sebac£e; while in the English and German literatures it is known as comedo (plural comedones). In this stage, acne is a purely functional affec¬ tion ; if we remove the accumulation of sebum in the glands and gland-ducts and change—by appropriate treatment—the altered char-