Identifier: n08britishjournal23brit (find matches)
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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Fig. 2. V Fig. 3. To ILLUSTRATE Dr. H. G AdaMSONS CaSE OF SPOROTRICHOSIS. A TASK OK si(ti;(»ri;i(iiosis. 243 water 100). The cultures were identical in aspect with a culture ofspoiotrichosis which had been given to the writer by M. Sabourand(see Plate I, figs. 2 and 3). Tlir fiDir/nx.—From the extreme margin of a culture a smallportion of the medium containing part of the fringe of the culturewas taken and mounted in licj. potassie. Under the microscope thefungus exactly corresponded with the description given by Americanand French authors.^ There were slender, pointed mycelial threads,
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Fig. 2. sometimes branched, and with oval and rounded spores, attached tothe mycelium singly or in groups by a fine pedicle (see Fig. 2). Pathological anatomy.—The lesion removed from the fore-arm washardened in alcohol and cut in paraffin, and sections were stained byMr. J. E. R. McDonagh, who kindly furnished me with the followingreport: Beneath the epidermis extending into the subcutis there is a * The moi-phology of the fungus is best studied in hanging-di-op cultures orby the technique des lames seches/ of De Beurmann, by which the fungus ismade to grow on slides very thinly covered with culture medium. (See Ann. deDerm, et de Syph., vii, 1906, p. 856.) 244 A CASE OF SPOROTRICHOSIS. cellular mass, in part largely composed of plasma-cells, which arearranged round about the blood-vessels. The blood-vessels, exceptfor showing a slight proliferation of their endothelium, are normal.In other places, also arranged perivascularly, are a collection oflymphocytes; and here and there the

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