Word: follicular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acne has been blamed on overactive glands, eating too much fat, constipation, heredity, iodized salt, infection, nervousness, allergy, frustrated love life, indigestion, picking. Dr. Straumfjord believes that, no matter what else may be wrong with a patient, acne always develops in a skin coarsened by "follicular hyper-keratosis"-i.e., hardening and coarsening of the tiny skin follicles (pores). This condition of the follicles, says he, "differs in no important way from the descriptions of the follicular lesions attributed to vitamin A deficiency"; in fact, he thinks the two conditions are identical...