Pathology and treatment of ringworm / by George Thin.

  • Thin, George.
Date:
1887
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    association of the abrupt raised margin of Tinea circinata with the irritation, desquamation, and vesicles of eczema. The treatment consists in the frequent and firm application of certain irritants. I am in the habit of prescribing washing with soft soap twice daily, and rubbing in Wilkinson's ointment, as modified by Hebra.1 This treatment is somewhat painful, but any treatment that is effectual in this disease must stimulate with some severity. Kaposi recommends the application of a 1 per cent, solution of naphthol in alcohol and a 5 per cent, naphthol ointment. Tar, iodine, solutions of perchloride of mercury, are all used more or less by practitioners, tincture of iodine, perhaps, more frequently than the others. In obstinate cases the epidermis must be softened by applica- tions of soft soap, which are allowed to remain for some time on the skin. This treatment is, however, severe, and not to be begun in the first instance. After the malady is cured the inguinal fold must be carefully kept dry, powder being freely used. CHAPTER VI. PAKASITIC SYCOSIS. When Trichophyton attacks the hairs of the beard it produces a disease known as Parasitic Sycosis. This affection, although it occurs occasionally, is not common in England. It has been most frequently observed in Paris, where, however, it is getting more rare. The affection is supposed to be usually conveyed by the razor of the barber. Lailler describes two degrees of it. In one, which he terms 1 ft Sulphuris Sublimati, Olei Cadini, iia, Jiv, Saponis Viridis, Adipis, aa ji, Crctre I'rreparata;, 3ii ss. M. Ft. uagt, F
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