Note on the development of trichopytosis cruris / by George Henry Fox.

  • Fox, George Henry, 1846-1937.
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[1882]
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Credit: Note on the development of trichopytosis cruris / by George Henry Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J O XT ZFE3ST OP Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases. VOL. I. OCTOBER. 1882. No. 1. ©uigiiml Commuiitcalions. NOTE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRICHOPHYTOSIS CRURIS. BY GEORGE HENRY FOX, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. THERE is probably no parasitic affection of the skin occurring in this country, whose nature is so apt to pass unrecognized as the ring¬ worm or so-called eczema marginatum of the genito-crural region. The disease is not so rare but that it is likely to occur in the practice of any physician, and a note on one or two clinical features of diagnostic value may be appreciated by readers who are not specially expert in cutaneous affections. Trichophytosis cruris usually begins upon that portion of the thigh with which the scrotum comes in contact, and the frequency with which the left thigh is found to be the starting-point of the disease, in males at least, is doubtless owing to the common custom of dressing upon that side. A reddened, scaly disc of circular or oval form may be noted at the outset, but frequently the patient is not led to examine the affected part until there has developed a reddened patch bounded by the outline of scrotal contact. A slight pruritic sensation is now experienced, the patient being inclined to rub rather than to scratch the affected skin. The other thigh becomes affected shortly after the disease is established, and a somewhat symmetrical eruption results, although the patch upon the thigh first affected is almost invariably larger than that upon the other. The disease is observed to be most active at the periphery of the