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many varieties of treatment for any condition, it is a reasonable supposition that none of them is highly successful. If one were, the others would be forgotten.
So it goes with acne, the plague of youth.
This "skin” disease, so distressingly common in adolescent boys and somewhat less so in girls, is not really a skin disease. It is a general condition manifesting itself most annoyingly in the skin eruption. It is essen. tially a by-product of the changes inherent in moving into manhood or along the way to womanhood.
Glands Active
At this time, the glands of internal secretion are especially active in guiding the maturing of the bo<fy and the estab'ishment of the adult pattern of sexuality. Among other glands stimu'ated are those of the skin, especially the oil or sebaceous glands.
There is no need to describe acne. Everyone knows what it looks like and how it acts. The question is, what to do about it?
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