Ringworm, its diagnosis and treatment / by Alder Smith.

  • Smith, Alder.
Date:
1880
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    not be admitted into a school until they are quite cured, except, perhaps, when a child has been thoroughly well treated for a year or more, and yet a few isolated stumps remain that cannot be immediately removed, at any rate under the usual treatment, even of the most skilful kind. These special chronic cases are brought up, as I too well know, for admission into public schools, at short intervals, during one or even two years, although constantly under the best medical treat- ment. What is to be done with such cases? With regard to Christ's Hospital, when boys reach a certain age they cannot be admitted, and therefore the time arrives sooner or later when a boy must either lose his presentation or be passed into the junior school suffering from chronic ring- worm. When this time arrives I advise admission into this particular school rather than that a pre- sentation should be lost, as I am strongly of opinion that these cases can be admitted with comparative safety to the other boys, provided they are regularly looked after, and some para- siticide, such as carbolic oil, used to the head, while the stumps are removed by the croton oil treatment. I have had boys in the London school under these circumstances, and have found that they have not spread the disease. Again,