Ringworm, its diagnosis and treatment / by Alder Smith.

  • Smith, Alder.
Date:
1880
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    Schools), or it will probably spread to tlie others. The doctor should at first personally superin- tend the application of the remedies, and should show the mother or nurse how to epilate, and to rub in the required ointment, &c. Great care should also be taken, when carbolic glycerine is used, to inform the nurse of the poi- sonous nature of the remedy, so that it may be safely put away when not actually in use. Constitutional Treatment. Internal treatment is not of much use in or- dinary ringworm, nor in recent cases; but in the inveterate forms, especially in weakly, anasmic, ill-nourished children, of a strumous or lymphatic diathesis, it is advisable to give cod-liver oil and steel, together with a generous diet, and other tonics if necessary : and sometimes also arsenic is useful. Dyspeptic symptoms, if present, must be removed with alkalies and tonics. It is a remarkable but certain fact that child- ren with chronic ringworm generally dislike fat. Nevertheless it should be given in some form or other, as cod-liver oil or cream. Change of air also, is sometimes beneficial in chronic cases; but the local treatment is the most important.