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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    Scurf after Ringworm. As a rule all scurf disappears from ringworm patches, as soon as the disease is perfectly well; but sometimes a place may remain scurfy for a long time after the fungus has been destroyed. In a case like this, glycerine, with an eighth part of carbolic acid, should be tried; or citrine oint- ment, diluted with three to seven parts of lard. Chronic scurf, however, is much more likely to he due to the disease being still uncured, and there- fore in a contagious state. In fact most cases of apparent simple scurfiness, left after treatment, are most inveterate forms of chronic ringworm, which probably can only be cured by the pro- duction of kerion. I therefore strongly advise everyone to be very careful, and not immediately conclude a case is simple scurf, but to most mi- nutely examine the scalp with a lens, to see if there are not a few isolated stumps scattered about, or even the black dots before described (page 7). It is also important to remember, that no reli- ance ivhatever can be placed upon the microscopi- cal examination of long or cut hairs taken from a suspicious spot, but only of the short stumps (if