Ringworm and some other scalp affections : their cause and cure / by Haydn Brown.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Ringworm and some other scalp affections : their cause and cure / by Haydn Brown. 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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    housed badly. Jameson says it is found in such children, “most likely because in those it spreads most readily by contagion.” It is quite true that contagious disease pure and simple will have a greater fling amongst this class than it will have in the midst of cleaner-living people; but here again I must insist that the dyscrasia determines the com- municability, for we may see two or three children suffering from impetigo, in one family, while others are unaffected, but the former will be obviously out of health and suffering from a fungus dyscrasia. Many of my critics will argue, just as some former observers have already laid it down, that the signs of ill-health are the result of impetigo, and we have before seen that favus is thought by some to influence the health, through absorption. I should not dispute the theory that such affections exercise influence on the general health; but I must insist that the dys- crasia is there first, however much more the general health may be influenced afterwards. As regards the micro-organisms found in connec- tion with impetigo, some observers consider that a particular fungus is the cause of the condition, while Crocker believes that micrococci are at the root of the mischief. In respect to these opinions Jameson writes: “ There are few crusts which, if exposed to the air, are absolutely free from such [fungi], and while a fungus has been found, observers are not agreed as to its character.” And Stelwagon states that he has also found micrococci “ in the maturing lesions, but does not regard them as peculiar to the
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