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Dermatologist Robert MacKenna has performed a yeoman's service for the much-maligned teenager by calling attention to one of his real problems-acne-and its serious aspects...
Which Came First? Dr. MacKenna will have no part of theories explaining acne in terms of emotional causes. He has seen much adolescent emotional suffering associated with acne, but it is, he believes, the result and not the cause of the trouble. To him this is sufficient reason for taking the severe case seriously...
...Britain's authoritative Lancet, acne gets the full treatment from a top Harley Street skin specialist, Robert M. B. MacKenna. Balancing himself between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality only when it ceases to be very mild and is obviously noticeable." For this second type he deplores the it-will-go-away brushoff and gets down to cases...
What to do? Dermatologist MacKenna stoutly holds that each individual case presents its own problems, but he slashes away a lot of old-fashioned injunctions. It is no use, he says, to impose such a strict diet that the victim feels forever hungry and deprived, or to prescribe special face lotions plus shampoos for the unproved relationship between dandruff and acne. Some cases can be cured, says Dr. MacKenna, by moderate restriction of sugars and starches, elimination of chocolate and cocoa in any form, from the diet, and nightly application of a paste containing 6% sulphur, 6% resorcin...
Engaged. Katherine Gibbs ("Kay") Francis Gaston Meehan MacKenna, 33, cinemactress (White Angel, First Lady, Mary Stevens M.D.); to Raven Erik Barnekow, 41, minor German baron; in Hollywood...