Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 118. Fig. 116. The favus crust is composed of a capsule of epidemic scales, linedby a finely granular mass, from which millions of cryptogamic plantsspring up and fructify. The presence of these parasitic vegetationsconstitutes the pathognomonic character of the disease (see Favus).Other forms of vegetable parasite are occasionally found in connectionwith the skin, of which that described by Mayer and Grrove, in themeatus of the ear, is a good example. The latter, as figured by Beale,is given Fig. 116. The skin is also attacke
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 118. Fig. 116. The favus crust is composed of a capsule of epidemic scales, linedby a finely granular mass, from which millions of cryptogamic plantsspring up and fructify. The presence of these parasitic vegetationsconstitutes the pathognomonic character of the disease (see Favus).Other forms of vegetable parasite are occasionally found in connectionwith the skin, of which that described by Mayer and Grrove, in themeatus of the ear, is a good example. The latter, as figured by Beale,is given Fig. 116. The skin is also attacked by certain animal parasites. Of these thepediculi, or lice, are too well known to need description. Tbe Acarusscabiei and the Entozoon folliculorum are described and figured in thesection on skin diseases. 2. Cutaneous Ulcers.—In healthy granulating sores, whilst the sur-face is covered with normal pus cor-puscles (Fig. 66), the granulationsthemselves present fibre-cells in allstages of development passing intofibres. In scrofulous and unhealthysores, th
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