Abstract
The growing tendency toward the injection of various vaccines in the treatment of acne gives rise to the suggestion that current notions concerning the etiology and pathology of this common ailment are more or less vague. The subject of this paper has been chosen not only with the purpose of reviewing some of our knowledge of the causes of acne but more particularly to inquire how far our methods of treatment coincide with that knowledge. What are the known facts as to the causes of acne? First of all, it is a disease of adolescence showing selective preference for neither sex. It is furthermore associated with excessive sebaceous secretion. When we consider the fact that every case of acne is preceded and accompanied by an exaggerated sebaceous flux we are apt to believe that in this condition of seborrhea is to be found the alpha and omega of our etiologic
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