Aids to a Healthy Skin

A healthy skin is a source of pleasure, not only to its owner but also to the one who looks at it. To possess a nice skin is to have great social and economic advantage. Besides, the positive health of the skin is an insurance against disease, the ideal of every individual as well as every medical man.

The normal healthy skin is

• clear,
• smooth,
• supple,
• elastic,
• uniformly pigmented without wrinkles and does not sag;
• the stratum corneum (horny layer) is thin,
• translucent and invisibly cast off,
• the pores are hardly visible,
• secreting an imperceptible amount of sebum and sweat (except in summer, in hot environments and when exertion takes place),
• there is no evidence of active bacterial or fungal growth.

This tone and glossiness is noticeably absent in the skin of the sedentary town worker.

Fibromas
Knuckle Pads
Cutaneous Tags
Keloid
Lipomas
Leiomyoma
Neuroma
Glomus Tumour
Seborrhoeic Warts
Keratoses
Basal Cell Epithelioma
Squamous Cell Epithelioma
Intra-Epidermal Epithelioma
Paget's Disease
Malignant Melanoma
Mycosis Fungoides
Hodgkin's Disease
Dermoid cyst
Pilonidal cyst
Benign cystic epithelioma
Syringoma (Hidradenomes eruptifis)
Sebaceous cyst
Milium
Mucous cyst
Hydrocystoma