On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox.

  • William Tilbury Fox
Date:
1878
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Credit: On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    use of the lens, and from a disregard of the fact that ringworm is often untypical in naked-eye aspects. As I stated, in speaking of Variation 1, such a state of things as an apparent local scurfiness —which is, however, ringworm—may last for a long time as a chronic condition, and I have known the affected child even become and remain for some time the real but unsuspected source, in a school, of the disseminating of the disease to a number of other children, from the belief that it was only suffering from a little scurfiness. An analogous state, but not so pronounced in its characters, is present in those who are believed to be convalescent, so to speak, or to have been cured from ringworm. A recent writer says, The real difficulty of diagnosis presents itself in chronic cases which may have been under treatment, which may have been apparently cured, and yet which are liable to relapse to an extreme degree in a short time. . . . There may be apparently a good head of hair and no evident mischief whilst a parasiticide is being rubbed in, but in any intermission of treatment a papule may first be noticed, and it and the original malady become evident. I think, in most of these cases, careless examination is the source of error j for characteristic diseased hairs are to be detected in con- nexion with a certain amount of scurfiness in these cases. But as the hair is apparently growing well, and not thinned, it is difficult to detect the disease at
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