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Title: The British journal of dermatology
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: British Association of Dermatology
Subjects: Dermatology Syphilis
Publisher: London H.K. Lewis (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nfection. From all four cases the Achorion gypseum with the typicalappearance and colour described by Bodin (Ann. de Derm.,1907, p. 585) was cultivated on Sabourauds medium. Drop culturesalso revealed the mycological features described by Bodin which soclosely resembled those of the animal microsporons. More particulai-lythere were present in extraordinary large numbers the very charac-teristic multilocular spindle-shaped bodies. - By direct microscopicalexamination of the fungus in the hairs and scales one noticed especiallythe many unusually large spores, which varied in size from 4 to 12/tt; SKTX-AFFECTIONS OAUSED BY ACHORION GYPSEUM (bODIN). 3 some oval forms Avere even 8 by 12 ix, and the suggestion of aperitliecium, which also was noticed by Bodin, Jhe case described by Bodin, which occurred in a woman, aged 30years, showed itself as a single eiytheraato-squamous lesion on the rightcheek about 3 cm. in diameter. On this lesion were four small favusscutula 2 to 3 mm. in diameter.
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Case 4.—Aehoiie)U gypseum. In Les Teignes (1910) Sabouraud describes the fungus afterthe same manner as Bodin, and reports that he knew of the followingcases of this condition. The first case, which had its origin from adog, he saw in 1894 in a child; he had noted it as a folliculitetrichopliyti((ue suppuree a petits elements, and called it Tricho-phyton du chien. The second case was that described by Sabrazes(Actes de la Soc. Linneenne de Bordeaux, tome 53), and occurred asa large kerion of the beard in a man, aged 50 years. This patient went 4 SK(N-AFFKCTrONS CAUSED BY ACHORION fJYPSEUM (bodIN). to a surgeon, wlio consideied the kerion to be an epithelioma and heremoved the tumour. Inoculation into men and animals producedsmall favus-like scutnla. Mewborns case (Jaurn. of Cut Dis.,1903, p. 11) is doubtful. In 1908, Suis (l^oulouse) found one case ina foal, the skin eruption of which very closely resembled a ti-icho-phyton lesion without scutula. Finally Sabouraud himself has seen

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