Skin diseases : including their definition, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, morbid anatomy and treatment : a manual for students and practitioners / by Malcolm Morris.

Date:
1879
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Credit: Skin diseases : including their definition, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, morbid anatomy and treatment : a manual for students and practitioners / by Malcolm Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    TINEA FAVOSA. with numerous leucocytes, are found in abundance between them. The chronic exudation, and in some cases the suppura- tion excited by this mycelial invasion, leads to gi-adual wasting of the affected corium, and is perhaps the cause of the depression and loss of haii-. Treatment.—EpHsition, advisable in ringworm, is here al- most indispensable. The removal of crusts, blistering, and the application of the mercury and acetic acid paint, followed by hyposulphite of soda lotion or the inunction of ammonio-chloride of mercury, ung. sulph. co. (see p. 244), &c., must be persevered in for a long time.' Tonics, cod-liver oil, good food, and hygiene are usually necessary.