Tricophytosis Corpora

This is the ordinary ringworm of the body, and is too familiar to need any special description. Appearing at first as a small red spot, it soon assumes the annular form, bounded by a slightly reddened and raised periphery. The center of the patch is apparently healthy, or, at most, slightly reddened. When two neighbouring rings extend until they meet, the elevated margins which are in contact melt away, and we may have a figure eight, or some, similar form.

This form of tricophytosis rarely gives rise to much inconvenience by itself, except in tropical countries, when this fungus is found to flourish with a vigor not met with in cooler regions.