Cultivation of psorospermia (a preliminary communication) / by Sheridan Delépine.

  • Auguste Sheridan Delépine
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[1891]
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    Reprinted from the ' 'Pransactions of the Pathological Society of London' 1891. I Cultivation of psorospermia {apreliminary communication). By Sheridan Del^pine, M.B.Edin. [With Plate VII, figs. 1, and 2 ; and Plate VIII.] ■noDiEs which resemble closely several forms of gregarinse or -D psorospermia have been described during the last fifty years by numerous observers as occurring in various organs in man. I need only refer by name to those observers to show that, notwith- standing the comparative rarity of their observation, they must be received as indicating the possibility of the infection of man by these parasites. They have been seen or described by GubUr (1858). ^ Virchow, Dressier, Sdmmering, Sattler, Silcoch, in the liver; Kjellberg, Eimer, Bivolta, Grassi, in the intestine and faeces during life ; Lindemann, Enoch on the hair and in several internal organs ; Eiinstler and Pitres in the pleura; Eadden, Cobhold, Eve, m the kidney and ureters; Eobin, Lebert, Lindemann, Bollinger, Darier, WicMam, Hutchmson, jun., Bowlby, in the skin, specially in moUuscum fibrosum and Paget's disease of the nipple. Even admittmg a certain number of erroneous statements, in presence of such a series of observations there can be little doubt as to the occasional presence of psorospermia in human tissues. It would therefore, be unwise to reject without inquiry the suggestion which has been made by several observers that psorospermia had an impor- tant share in the production of certain lesions, such as Paget's disease of the nipple or epitheliomata. I must own that for years I Ike many others, have been struck with the appearance of certain large bodies occupying or not the central parts of cell nests, and