Show Keep Skin Clean to Prevent Acne Is Advice to 10 the Young Local Treatment Is Best Say the Dermatologists Chicago For acne the acne the adolescents adolescent's complaint local complaint local skin cleanliness brings th the e best beat results That Improperly functioning endocrine endocrine en en- glands land are probably for acne lene medical r re he search earch examiners believe But n no glandular substance found is 11 enough better th than n local treatment to Justify Jus Rus WY the expense and effort eori of it Its It administration Thirty nine 1 students at the Uni University of Iowa have recently been n treated for acne as l a part of a scientific clen o experiment Dr Grace Orace E. E Williams Wil WU llama liams medical adviser to women and Dr Ruben professor sor tor of 01 dermatology at the university sity Ity report their observations observation on these the students in the Journal of oi the American Medical Association With evidence pointing to a deft deficiency clency of ot sex lex hormone In acne patients pa pat the the Iowa physicians began their study They took twenty eight women students and eleven elven urea men the average being nineteen years Of ot these the eleven had severe lever twenty moderately severe levere and eight mild acne Hormone Treatment Not Effective All thirty nine students were asked aked to give Ive meticulous l attention a to de de- 1 J tall tails In hi the care and treatment of their skin akin In addition twenty of them were treated with sex leX hormones hormones hor mones mon while the remaining nineteen nine teen were wre also alao given liven injections but the Injections were merely sterile tern I water The students did not know which were getting hormone IU sub substance stance tance and which were getting wa we- ter Treatment went on for from four tour to six months with 85 83 per cent of those tho given liven the hormone substance showing moderate to marked Improvement Im provement and 78 per cent of the control group given liven sterile water j Im-j showing the same came degree o of 01 improvement Im im- Improvement provement The Iowa doctors doctor concluded at atthe atthe atthe the end of 01 the experiment that a deficiency of the pituitary Uke hor- hor is 11 not an Important factor In causing acne and ad that the local treatment is J. still lUU the best belt bet for controlling acne Here are th the instructions for local treatment of acne given liven to most mot of j the students I Stop all aU picking and squeezing Discontinue the u. u use of 01 all aU cosmetic 4 Wash with coop and water water wa ter twice dally daily keeping the skin almost almod to to the point of 01 caUn scaling Eat a diet low draUs Eat no candy Remove amov blackheads blackhead by placing hot bot towels towel on the face for tor five Ave minutes then applying ap- ap plying flying a thin coating of of S a percent per cent resorcinol In cold cream to the fee face and again applying hot towels for tor forve five Iv ve minutes The blackheads ate are then squeezed out with a remover the Sacs lace tined rinsed with coldwater cold coldwater coldwater water and water war ap- ap ap apo plied Apply a prescribed lotion tw two or three times a da day Avoid Iodized iodised salt alL Shampoo the hair twice a week |