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Title: An American text-book of the diseases of children ..
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Starr, Louis, 1849-1925 Westcott, Thompson Seiser, 1862-
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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TINEA FAVOSA DISEASES OF Till-: SKIN. 1093 lustreless, and, an their nutrition is destroyed by the fungus, gradually fall,thus leaving irregular more or less bald areas. A peculiar odor is to bedetected in those Buffering from favus, which has been likened to the odor ofa mouses aest. When favus attacks the general surface, it usually commencesas vesicles surrounded with inflammatory areolae : after a time the characteristicscutula develop upon the skin. When the nails are involved a yellow spot,m reality a scutulum, may occasionally be seen at one point: more often, how-ever, the nails become rough, dry, brittle, pitted, and gradually crumble away.When the disease has existed upon the scalp for any length of time, permanentatrophy and loss of hair result. The affection generally begins in childhood,and, untreated, may persist for years or throughout life. The subjective symp-toms are limited to a slight itching. Under the microscope the scutula are seen to be formed almost entirelyof

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