Abstract
From the Classical Age to date, a lot of progress has been made in Medicine, but skin diseases only reached their autonomy during the eighteenth century. Before this period, cutaneous disorders were only considered as “materia peccans,” that means a sign of an internal disequilibrium of “humors,” which need to be evacuated. Cutaneous pores were seen just as the way by which the body could purify itself.
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Cutis Unctuosa
Est cutis splendor unctuosus ac si esset butyro illita.
Causa proxima est pororum glandularium, vel qui ad tunicam adiposam pergunt, laxa amplitudo, quae oleum subcutaneum transudare sinit.
1. Unctuositas vulgaris, curatur roborantibus internis, & externa applicatione aquae frigidae & liquoris adstringentis.
2. Unctuosistas elephantina, quae in elephantiasi observatur, est incurabilis ut elephantiasis
Translation from latin
Oily skin
The skin is shining as it as been treated with butter.
The proximal cause is due to follicular glands communicating with hypodermis, which let the subcutaneous oil appear on the surface because their loose opening.
1. Common oily skin is treated with internal remedies and external applications of cold water and astringent lotion.
2. Elephantine oily skin, as it is observed in elephantiasis, cannot be cured as the underlying disease”
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Gelmetti, C. (2014). The Sebaceous Gland Through the Centuries: A Difficult Path to Independence. In: Zouboulis, C., Katsambas, A., Kligman, A. (eds) Pathogenesis and Treatment of Acne and Rosacea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69375-8_1
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