The Treatment of Acne

• Autores: Henry Wm. Blanc
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 20, 2014, págs. 2131-2131
• Idioma: inglés
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  • When we consider what a common affection is acne, it is rather remarkable that so little attention is given to it by the general practitioner.

    If a youth between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five years asks the advice of his family physician about a face broken out with pimples, he is not infrequently given a large amount of advice and a small amount of arsenic, and told that he will soon outgrow the disease, or outlive it, at any rate.

    If a young girl is afflicted with the trouble she gets similar advice, but the arsenic is now mixed with a little iron, or some emmenagogue; and she, too, is sent on her way to await the predicted disappearance. But does this spontaneous cure come to confirm this advice?