This disease principally attacks infants between the seventh and eighth month after birth, and during the first period of dentition. Where the child is naturally healthy, often no treatment is required, except perhaps a change of air.

Diagnosis

The eruption consists of yellowish white pustules on a red surface, breaking in three or four days, and forming whitish yellow crusts. As the secretion 4.* continues these crusts become darker and thicker. The eruption first appears on the forehead and cheek, and gradually extends over the face, covering it like a mask, sometimes also covering the entire scalp and ears.

The Prominent Remedies Are Rhus, Sulph, Hep. s., Staph., Sep. and Ars. For their separate indications, as well as for external applications, see Tinea Capitis. The inflammation of the eyes, which not unfrequently accompanies this disease, yield to Euphrasia, Hepar-s. or Belladonna. See Materia Medica.