A microscopical inquiry into the vegetable parasites infesting the human skin / by Jabez Hogg.

  • Jabez Hogg
Date:
[1859]
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Credit: A microscopical inquiry into the vegetable parasites infesting the human skin / by Jabez Hogg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    boy who has long been suffering from a scaly disease affecting the whole of the cutaneous surface. In some respects it resembles favus, and the crusts, which fall off in immense quantities, resemble the Anchorion Schoenleinii, in fact are wholly composed of torulae and epithelial scales. A small piece of crust put into sugar and water passes through the usual stages of the fermentative process, and gives off car- bonic acid. Any quantity of sweetwort might be fermented, indeed the scales look like dried yeast; proving the analogy between this fungus and the yeast-plant.