Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1882 — Ringworm. [ARTICLE]

Ringworm.

Cause:—Supposed to be a fungoid growth and is induced, generally, by exposure or coming in contact with irritants or poisonous plants or weeds. Rhigworm on the body commences as a little circular, pale, elevated spot the size of a split pea or larger, which is covered with fine scales and is accompanied by itching. As the spot increases the center clears and the patch now becomes a ring, which may extend till it has attained a diameter of three or four inches or more; it may occur on any part of the body, but is more common in those parts which are most freely exposed, as the face, neck and hands. Treatment:—We must first clean the patch by washing with soap and water, and then apply, two or four times a day, glycerine two ounces, carbolic acid, pure, one-half dram. Mix; apply lightly with a feather or piece of sponge. If the patch becomes inflamed, apply poultices of bread and milk, or meal, moist and warm, and soothing applications, as hop or stramonium fomentations. Mr. Samuel A. Denton, of Lebanon, 0., writes: “My wife has for years been a great sufferer from female diseases. Her health was very poor, and her blood full of impurities. She complained of pains about the loins and back; and would sometimes keep her bed for days. I gave her Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, which helped her greatly from the start, and now I never saw her skin so fair, her lips so red, or her cheeks so rosy. She attends to her housework herself now, afld I never hear her complain.”