====== LETTER FROM DR. BACMEISTER.====== 

{{anchor:s2}}TOULON, Nov. 9th, 1858.

{{anchor:s3}}EDS. OF HOM. REVIEW,

{{anchor:s4}}GENTLEMEN:-On page 95 of the last REVIEW, I noticed a case illustrating the injurious effects of external applications in treating Tinea Capitis. {{anchor:s5}}The following I think is conclusive on this point:

{{anchor:s6}}In the early part of March, 1857, I was called to see a little patient, aged 18 months, which I found laboring under a meningitis. {{anchor:s7}}Entering into the history of the case I was told there had been a very bad eruption on the child's scalp for some time back, which, however, the mother had cured very quickly only a few days before she called me, by applying some patent ointment, and that the present disease came on just as the head was getting well.

{{anchor:s8}}When I told the parents what their so-called cure amounted to, they seemed perfectly astounded, and begged me to do all that could be done for the little sufferer (their only child.)

{{anchor:s9}}I saw the case for 4 days, during which time there seemed but little change, on the 5th, some improvement was apparent. {{anchor:s10}}When I called on the 6th day the mother met me in the door-way, her countenance beaming with joy. {{anchor:s11}}She said the child was so much better, and that nasty eruption had come out again as bad as ever. {{anchor:s12}}And true enough it had come out; the meningitis was gone and in six weeks more the tinea capitis was gone, and the child has kept well to this day.

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====== DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR ======

^ Source: | The AMERICAN HOMOEOPATHIC REVIEW Vol. 01 No. 03, 1858, page 140 |
^ Description: | Letter from Dr. Bacmeister; Dangerous consequences of a suppression of eruption; |
^ Author: | AHomeo01 |
^ Year: | 1858 |
^ Editing: | errors only; interlinks; formatting |
^ Attribution: | Legatum Homeopathicum |