On the non-identity of the parasites met with in Favus, Tinea Tonsurans, and Pityriasis Versicolor : including, proofs derived from the occurrence of these diseases amongst the lower animals, and their transmission from them to man / by Dr. M'Call Anderson.

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
Date:
1866
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Credit: On the non-identity of the parasites met with in Favus, Tinea Tonsurans, and Pityriasis Versicolor : including, proofs derived from the occurrence of these diseases amongst the lower animals, and their transmission from them to man / by Dr. M'Call Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    along with him a family which he was attending. A number of mice had been caught in the house three months previous to this date, which had been much handled by the children. Five weeks afterwards an eruption was noticed on one of the little girls, which spread to one of the sisters, her mother, the baby, and a little girl who worked in the establishment. On examining the eruption, which was confined to the non-hairy parts, it was found to correspond exactly with the appearances in the previous case. On some of the patches distinct favus cups were seen which exhibited the achorion microscopically, and on those which were devoid of them the eruption corresponded to the variety described in my volume on the parasitic affections of the skin as Favus of the Epidermis, and the scales were loaded with the spores and tubes of the parasite. There were no mice in the traps at the time, but shortly after my visit Dr. Bryce kindly sent me five, on the back of one of which near the tail a characteristic favus cup was seen, while the side and lateral aspects of the head and ears of another were eaten away by the disease. The crusts were examined with the microscope, and the achorion was detected in great abandance. Dr. Bryce informed me that the mice sent to me exhibited the same appearance as those with which the children had been playing. But favus is not limited to cats and mice, for we read that Miiller observed it in a Cochin-Chinafowl and in several chickens which had contracted it from the fowl; that Gerlach observed its transmission from fowls to the human