Author: American Medical Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-08

Total Pages: 800

ISBN-13: 9780243318896

Excerpt from Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, 1920, Vol. 1: Succeeding Vol. 38, 1919, the Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Although the monumental work of Sabouraud and his followers has thrown a flood of light on the whole subject Of ringworm in the past twenty - five years, this light has shone chiefly for the dermatologist and in some instances apparently rather dimly for him. The general practitioner still gropes in Cimmerian darkness; for him ringworm is still nothing more than bald, scaly patches on the scalps of children or scaly rings on the non-hairy surfaces; eczematoid ringworm and the deep inflammatory trichophytoses Of animal origin do not exist for him - they are a term incognita Whose borders he has not even seen, let alone entered on. It is only by the persistent reporting the less common forms Of the disease that we can hope to teach him that infec tion by the trichophyton and other nearly related fungi may produce cutaneous diseases with widely varying symptoms presenting none Of the clinical features commonly associated with ringworm, and that such infection occasionally produces severe inflammatory symptoms and even, in rare instance, destruction of tissue. It is partly for this reason, but more especially because they present some features of unusual interest to the dermatologist, that the two cases here described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.