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.
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[1837]
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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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    prevents the possibility of the usual mode of their exhibition, or when the components of the medicine are liable to be neutralized by the contents of the stomach, or counteracted by the digestive organs generally. I entertain strong hopes that a considerable advance in practical therapeutics will eventually be made by the extensive use of endermic medication; the direction of the means it suggests has been the engrossing study of the chief portion of my life; and the uniform success attendant upon its adoption in diseases of the scalp, the occasion of my thus introducing to public notice my invention of a Medicated Steam Bath for the cure of Tinea Capitis in all its tedious and disgusting stages. In the following pages I have endeavoured to condense into as close a form as might be consistent with distinctness and perspicuity,