This section is from the book "The Relation Of Food To Health And Premature Death", by Geo. H. Townsend, Felix J. Levy, Geo. Clinton Crandall. Also available from Amazon: Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You.
This is the most common of all skin diseases not of a transient nature, and begins with an inflamed patch which often spreads. There are usually red pimples, but the red spots may only be swollen vesicles with watery discharges followed by thickening, scabbing, scaling and intense itching.
Excessive meat eating and other causes enumerated in acne. The same rules apply to diet.
 
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