Ringworm inspires disgust ; more or less almost all skin diseases do that, and yet a perfectly clear skin may enclose a very diseased organism, and a skin- diseased person may have a relatively much better constitution, and have all his internal organs in a relatively much better state, his cutaneous manifestations notwithstanding. In regard to ringworm in general opinion that absolutely healthy children do not and cannot, catch it. Before they can catch ringworm it is essential that they be in tainted health in some way, for otherwise they could not supply to the parasitic fungi the food which they need to live and thrive on, and to continue their propagation.The trichophyton is not the disease itself, but its organic scavenger. Cure the internal disease, and this scavenger dies. About The Author : James Compton Burnett was born on July 10, 1840 and died April 2, 1901. Dr. Burnett attended medical school in Vienna, Austria in 1865. Alfred Hawkes converted him to homeopathy in 1872 (in Glasgow). In 1876 he took his MD degree.Burnett was one of the first to speak about vaccination triggering illness. This was discussed in his book, Vaccinosis, published in 1884.Along with other nosodes, he introduced the remedy Baccillinum. A prodigious writer he published over twenty books in his lifetime. His book, Fifty Reasons for Being a Homoeopath (1888), is of particular note for beginning homeopaths.J.H. Clarke, Robert T. Cooper, and James Compton Burnett together formed the 'Cooper Club'. This regular meeting of leading British homeopaths was the source of many of the symptoms in Clarke's Dictionary of Materia Medica.Clarke says of Burnett,