. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. Trichophytosis capitis.(From Prof. G. H. Foxs service at the Vanderbilt clinic.) This is the typical ringworm, as seen in the vast ma-jority of cases. Sometimes, instead of being scarcely ornot at all raised above the surface of the skin, the patch,usually a single one, begins to swell up, becomes raised, un-even, and boggy, and we have the condition of things de-scribed as kerion (which see). Another variety is whatLiveing terms bald tinea tonsurans. This begins as anordinary ringworm, but after a time the hair all falls out,the scalp is
. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. Trichophytosis capitis.(From Prof. G. H. Foxs service at the Vanderbilt clinic.) This is the typical ringworm, as seen in the vast ma-jority of cases. Sometimes, instead of being scarcely ornot at all raised above the surface of the skin, the patch,usually a single one, begins to swell up, becomes raised, un-even, and boggy, and we have the condition of things de-scribed as kerion (which see). Another variety is whatLiveing terms bald tinea tonsurans. This begins as anordinary ringworm, but after a time the hair all falls out,the scalp is smooth and without scales, as in alopecia areata,and at its boder there may be found short broken hairs,like those seen in the latter disease. At first this changetakes place in one patch alone, and we will be guided to aright diagnosis of the disease by the appearances of theother patches. Later, these too become altered, and then itwould be hard to make the diagnosis without the history oftheir having been scaly patches. This is an infrequent formo
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