Ringworm, its diagnosis and treatment / by Alder Smith.

  • Smith, Alder.
Date:
1880
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    back of the neck, but I have never seen them suppurate. Sometimes kerion is rapidly produced, at others it is most difficult to obtain. Croton oil may be applied over aud over again without causing the swollen, puffy state of the scalp desired ; but, even if the infiltrated condition of the skin cannot be produced, and a deep pustular rash alone is formed, more or less inflammation is' always set up, and the treatment very rarely fails in loosening the stumps and curing the disease. If the pustular rash only has been produced, and not real kerion, it often happens that some of the stumps break on attempted epilation. If this occur, it is better immediately to place a minute drop of croton oil on or in the follicle, with the aid of a very fine brush or point of a gold pin,, which will probably cause the expulsion of the stump in a few days. At the next examination I follow the same plan, and so on, until I cannot find a single stump, even after watching for a fort- night, or month. In some very rare cases, where the scalp will not puff up and become infiltrated, but only in- flame, and when croton oil has been employed many times, (and, perhaps, even a small quantity