Ringworm and some other scalp affections : their cause and cure / by Haydn Brown.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    without SO much clangour of weapons. Let us en- deavour to get out of an atmosphere of so much ill-temper and disappointment; it is possible we may obtain peace with a much less bloodthirsty retaliation if we look well into both sides of the question ; if we thoroughly investigate the cause and nature of the complaint before taking up arms; if we carefully examine the soil or grounds of disease before we begin our campaign against organisms ; let us rest for a moment in our scheming and inventing of new systems and engines of warfare, in order to get breath and recover our senses. To know the nature of a people from Avhom hostile squadrons happen to spring, is to win a battle almost at its very inception, or even to prevent it; the word of a sober government can send distant legions to their tents, and can hoist the white flag. So the general state of the body can give its word of command to local disease; it can counteract further ravages, and even quell the very commencement of disorder; it can do so by rendering the soil or con- dition of parts incapable of sustaining any form of micro-organism activity or growth. Now, almost the whole of ringworm literature may be characterized by one word ; it is essentially Pathological. Pathology and statistics, bad results and shattered hopes; upon such is based an eternal therapeutic theme with variations. Hinc ilia lacryma. Nothing new has been brought forward in the way of local application that has given very much better results than many others that have been previously