Alopecia / by Edward Wigglesworth.

  • Wigglesworth, Edward, 1840-1896
Date:
1871
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Credit: Alopecia / by Edward Wigglesworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parasite, tlian in other parasitical diseases. And jet it is precisely from the ranks of the fungus worshippers that we draw proof to the contrary. Mr. Hutchinson* reports forty- two cases of Alopecia areata. Eleven of these were adults. Of these adults, Nos. 2, 34 and 36 [I retain Mr. li.'s num- bers] were dyspeptic; No. 41 not so well as usual, health fair; Nos. 26, 27 and 37, good health; No. 28 had a bad scald-head, health fair; No. 23 had a ring- worm in infancy, and the hair did not grow well afterwards ; No. 4, fair, not feeling well; Nos. 8 and 40, dyspeptic ; No. 1, a little losing flesh ; No. 3 looks underfed ; No. 5 had water on tlie brain, which left a squint, almost well when the disease began; No. 7, losing flesh ;f No. 10, delicate, pale, clear skinned; No. 13, delicate, ill- nourished, starved-looking; No. 15, strumous; No. 17, rather delicate; No. 18, delicate, has lost flesh; No. 22, pale and delicate; No. 32, cachectic. Now if these conditions were the consequence of parasitic disease, we should naturally expect the presence of a vast amount of fungus, and the same is true were the parasite secondary or concomitant, on account of tlie suitableness of the soil. For experiment [Hannover and Stilling] has shown that the more diseased the subject the better the artificial introduction of the parasite is accomplished.J To this testify Bouley, Trousseau, Delafond, Davy, Robin, Hillier, Thompson, Hunt, Bazin, Balfour§ and others. The lustreless appearance and disintegrating cuticle of the hairs in the early stages of Alopecia areata is also sympto- matic of depraved nervous power, causing imperfect nutri- * Med. Times and Gazette, Feb. 13tl), 1858, p. 165. t N. B. Two sisters of Case No. 7 liad coincident ringworm. t Fox, T. Parasitic Diseases, 1833, p. 23. ^ Med. Times and Gazette, Feb. 27th, 1858.
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