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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    as liable to the disease as others, yet perfectly healthy children with excellent constitutions are equally liable to it.” ^ Duhring writes: “ A certain state of the epidermis, or soil, the exact nature of which is obscure, is re- quired for their [the fungi] development, without which favourable condition they fail to take root and s:row, or at least to thrive.” ^ Xow a better idea than is conveyed in the above could not be given, in a small space, of the opinions and theories that are at the present time held regard- in 2: the human soil or OTound for cultivation of ringworm fungus. We have the conviction of one high authority that “the affection is purely local;” while another, equally researching, observant, and persevering, gives his opinion that the general health has “ nothing to do with ringworm,” and with these —perhaps the greatest authorities—many others readily agree. Nearly everyone however is inclined to admit that there is “ a curious fact about the soil; a certain state of the epidermis, the exact nature of which is obscure,” and so on, but no one is prepared to commit himself with the smallest speculation regarding what the particular condition of the soil is, and how it is pro- duced. Aldersmith and Malcolm Morris peremptorily repudiate the idea that the growth of the fungus has anything to do with the general health. In our criticism, let us take particular notice, for ' “ Pathology and Treatment of Ringworm,” p. 23. ■ “ Cutaneous Medicine.”