specific Remedy for the Tinea Capitis. 6q 



Observations on this Case hj Dr. Thornton. 



1. The herpes is a species of hitherto incurable leprosy, 

 and was confirmed in the habit of this gentleman, having 

 existed, as he writes to me, twenty-five years. 



2. The common means failing, the trial of carbonic acid 

 air to the paits aftected was a judicious application. 



3. If meat is put into fixed air it does not become putrid, 

 and even tainted meat becomes sweet by immersion in fixed 

 air. 



4. Fixed air also takes off inflamrnation ; for if a blister 

 be cut, and fixed air be applied, the paiu instantly ceases. 



5. lu this case it evidently promoted action, for after 

 each application a moisture always prevailed ; the incrusta- 

 tions were before hard and dry. 



6. As the cure has existed seven years, a relapse is not to 

 be dreaded; and this case is, I think, a very striking ex- 

 ample of the proprietv, not of the "madness," of the ap- 

 plication of the pneumatic agents. 



. I have the honour to remain, dear sir. 

 Your obliged devoted friend, 



Robert John Tiiorntox. 



XIII. A spcajic Remedij for the Tinea Capitis. By 

 JMr. James Barlow. 



To Mr. Tilloch. 



XT ^^"' 



-O-jiRKWiTH vou will receive an account of a specific re- 

 medy for the tinea capitis-, the insertion of which in your 

 valuable Magazine will much oblige 



Your obedient servant, 



Blackburn, Lancashire, JaMES BaRT.OW. 



October 20, 1805. 



Most practitioners in medicine must have frequently ex- 

 perienced the difiiculty of curing this obstinate malady. The 

 intractableness of most children when attempted to be con- 

 trolled or governed by the accustomed mode of treatment, 

 renders the disease in most instances very difficult to subdue; 

 and the quickness with which the hair of the ?calp grows 

 in children, has hitherto almost always rendered every eflbrt 

 to conquer the disease of no avail. 



It was from a constant failure under the numernys and 

 diversified remedies which have been recommended by au- 

 thors in this malignant disease, that 1 was led to adopt the 

 E 3 subjoined 



