4 DISEASES CLASS II. i. 5. 12. 



1 2. Cntfta lafien. Milk-cruft is a milder difeafe than tinea, 

 affecting the face as well as the hairy fcalp of very young chil- 

 dren. It is not infectious, nor liable to fwell the lymphatics in its 

 vicinity like the tinea. 



M. M. Cover the eruption with cerate made with lapis cala- 

 minaris, to be renewed every day. Mix one grain of emetic tar- 

 tar with forty grains of chalk, and divide into eight papers, one 

 to be taken twice a day, or with magnefia alba, if (tools are want- 

 ed. The child {hould be kept cool and much in the air. 



13. Trichoma. Plica polonica. A contagious difeafe, in 

 which the hair is faid to become alive and bleed, forming inex* 

 tricable knots or plaits of great length, like the fabled head of 

 Medufa, with intolerable pain, fo as to confine the fufferer QQ. 

 his bed for years. 



