A treatise on the human hair, and its diseases / by Bela C. Perry.

  • Perry, Bela C.
Date:
1859
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Credit: A treatise on the human hair, and its diseases / by Bela C. Perry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    standing this extreme precaution by the parents, one of the children generated ringworm, and in less than three weeks all the others were similarly affected. Hence we perceive, according to this author, that he is not decided upon its origin. We might thus continue to dwell upon the opinion of physicians, in relation to the supposed contagion connected with ringworm, but our object being only to establish the difference between Ringworm and Matterated Secretion, we therefore conclude the description of the nature of ringworm, supposing there has been sufficient mention made of the dif- ference in the nature of this disease to make it easily distinguishable from any other. It will be observed in cases of matterated secre- tion, that the hair close to the skin is imbedded in a thick matter, which seems to ooze from the space be- tween the internal and external skins, and will ap- pear as often as removed, unless a cure is effected. Even if particular pains are taken to remove every par- ticle of scurf, at the end of two days, this disagreeable effection will again assume its mastery upon the scalp, and thus will it continue to agglutinate the hair in such a manner as to render combing impos- sible, while its destructive properties are inoculating every portion of the cuticle, thereby changing a smooth and polished surface into an imperfect mass of corruption.