A practical treatise on tinea capitis contagiosa and its cure : with an attempt to distinguish this disease from other affections of the scalp: and a plan for the arrangement of cutaneous appearances, according to their origin and treatment; including an enquiry into the nature and cure of fungi haematodes and naevi materni. The whole exemplified by cases / by W. Cooke.

  • Cooke, William, 1778-1857.
Date:
1810
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on tinea capitis contagiosa and its cure : with an attempt to distinguish this disease from other affections of the scalp: and a plan for the arrangement of cutaneous appearances, according to their origin and treatment; including an enquiry into the nature and cure of fungi haematodes and naevi materni. The whole exemplified by cases / by W. Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    CASE XVI. THE son of a gentleman who was residing with a family in the neigh- bourhood of Brentford, had formerly, from his own account as well as from the ap- pearance of the scalp, tinea capitis con- tagiosa, which disease was cured, (after many applications had been tried,) by the culinary mustard, and walnut catsup. These applications had been used in a general manner to the scalp, and had induced an irritable state of the skin, which was covered with scurfy and erup- tive patches. The parents concluding that this ap- pearance was a return of the former