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M. R. LICHTENSTEIN, M.D.; ARTHUR W. STILLIANS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;45(5):956-958.

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In caring for the cutaneous disturbances of patients in the City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium we encounter acne vulgaris far more often than any other disease of the skin. This is because the patients are selected because of their youth as the ones likely to receive the greatest benefit from care in the institution. Many of them coming for treatment state that they never had acne before or that an eruption existing before their admission to the hospital has grown much worse since they entered. This we have ascribed to the fattening diet in use.

Von Kémeri¹ in 1934, on the assumption that acne vulgaris is due to focal infection, noted that many patients were not cured by eradication of all easily reached infectious foci, such as those in the tonsils and about the teeth, looked for deeper foci and found them in the lungs as foci of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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