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Credit: On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![30 the aspect of red rings made up of ill-defined vesicular or papular raised edges, enclosing pale, scurfy centres, in the scales from which fungus elements can be detected—is never a matter of difficulty in the vast majority of cases ; and I there- fore do not enter into this question, nor that of tropical body ringworm. I wish, however, to point out that in some cases, in v^hich body ringworm is extensive, recurrent, and chronic, the state of the bodies of children is, without question, unusually favourable for the development of ringworm, and that the very same general treatment as that advisable in severe ringworm cases is called for to rectify this susceptibility. But, whilst admitting this fact, I believe also that though the profuseness and obstinacy of ringworm may seem in other cases to be due to the existence of some general state of the nutrition favourable to parasitic growth, yet they are not so in reality, but are truly the result of the neglect of proper local measures calculated to prevent the reimplantation of the fungus upon the body and its transplantation from part to part. In many cases the fungus elements obtain access to clothes, comforters, and such things, only to be brought continually in contact with the body, as the sources of fresh mischief; or ringworm, existing in two or three parts of tlie body, is .spread from ])lace to place because of the absence of proper applica- tions, ablutionary measures, and the like. I think](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21952279_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
