On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox.

  • Fox, Tilbury, 1836-1879.
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On ringworm and its management / by Tilbury Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nised, and that consists in diseased hairs, which may of course be few or many in number. d. In the fourth place, in dealing- with the treat- ment of the disease in detail, it is of the utmost con- sequence to recognise and act upon the fact that the disease, as I have already hinted, varies vastly in the degree of its hold upon the surface, according to the state of health of the attacked subject. General treatment may not be needed in some cases, but it is essential to the cure of the disease in others, and must be formulated in accord with several important considerations. The want of attention to this point greatly encourages blind faith in specifics. If it be neglected, of course, the differences in the characters of different cases remain unrecognised, and, conse- quently, all cases are treated alike. This topic will be duly noticed. e. In the fifth place, the directions given to those who are entrusted with the care of ringworm cases are often not sufficiently explicit and urgent. Proper directions must come from the prescriber. If the medical practitioner is himself not duly impressed with the necessity of unusual precautions and perse- verance in the vigorous treatment of the disease, it is not to be expected that the attendant will ap- preciate the fact. What is needed is that the mother or nurse in charge of the affected child should be impressed by the practitioner with the conviction that the real difficulty in curing the disease is.