A popular treatise on tinea capitis, or, ringworm ... and a description of a medicated steam bath, invented by the author, for the treatment and cure of diseases of the scalp / [James Andrew Welch].

  • Welch, James Andrew.
Date:
[1837]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A popular treatise on tinea capitis, or, ringworm ... and a description of a medicated steam bath, invented by the author, for the treatment and cure of diseases of the scalp / [James Andrew Welch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • ♦ « XI1 whenever the subject of tinea is mentioned in the most respectable society., the party addressed is sure to acknowledge that some member of his own family, or of his immedi¬ ate connection is suffering under its pestiferous influence. The subject of endermic medication is at present engaging the attention of many scientific men, whose investigation will doubtless lead to highly-interesting results, confirmatory, or the reverse, of the benefits to be expected from the adoption of a method frequently resorted to by the Continental physicians. The influence of medicine upon the system at large, administered through the absorbent vessels in different cases of Chronic Disease, Intermittent Fever, Gastritis, &c. may obviate the necessity of administering remedies by the stomach, when delirium or exhaustion in the patient