BROCQ,1 in 1898, described this condition minutely, named it, and outlined his treatment. His masterly description has not been improved to this day. In 1915, Adamson2 drew attention in the English literature to Brocq's work and placed this disease in a classification. In Volume 1 of the Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, two papers are devoted to "Neurotic Excoriations." In one, Pusey and Senear3 discuss Adamson's paper very completely and mention the fact that scant attention has been paid to this subject in the American literature. In the paper by MacKee,4 Cases 5 and 6 which he presents were probably excoriated acne and not neurotic excoriations, judging from his description of the disease and the excellent response to therapy. Following these papers, there is a paucity of reports on this disease.
Excoriated acne is described in most of the standard dermatological textbooks published in England