Ringworm, its diagnosis and treatment / by Alder Smith.

  • Smith, Alder.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Ringworm, its diagnosis and treatment / by Alder Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    roe. Now and then a hair may be seen to be distended and ruptured along its shaft, the fila- ments with conidia protruding at these points, and in some cases the fungous elements so abun- dant as to completely disintegrate the hair. The free end of the broken stump possesses a jagged, stubble-like, frayed-out extremity. Between the filaments of the faggot-like end many conidia are seen. {Vide Fig. 2). Cases like this have certainly existed for many months, or, more likely, for a year or two, and may have given the disease to many other mem- bers of a family, while all the time they have been overlooked, or thought to be well. But apart from these varieties, some of which are exceedingly diflicult to diagnose, I have bad children sent to me, certified as cured, when there were typical patches existing as large as a five- shilling piece, itching, and covered with very short, broken, dry, opaque, and twisted hairs, looking as if they had been nibbled-off, frequent- ly of the usual yellow or ash-grey colour, and with fine opaque branny scales or scurf, evidently show- ing that some medical men have no idea what ringworm is like; and even when these appear- ances are pointed out to them, they affirm that the disease is dried up and cured, and that the child is quite jit to mix with other children.