On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox.

Date:
1878
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Credit: On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox. 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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    of cases occur, the air is the medium of the dissemi- nation of fungus particles given off from infected heads, from the diseased to the healthy, as I have elsewhere shown. (2) The school generally must be placed under the best hygienic influences, especially in the way of careful ventilation; the general health state of the children must be examined, and the diet improved if need be. The children must not be given too limited a space to live in, nor too much confined in-doors. The ablutionary measures, the regular greasing of the heads of the healthy with parasiticide applications, and other matters above referred to, must be enforced with the utmost precision. But very impoi-tant to my mind in large institu- tions is the adoption of separate laundry arrange- ments for the healthy and the infected, and the careful disinfection of the clothes of the latter. THE END.