An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . 7 may be straightor curved and wavy, more rarely branched, and are shorter than the vegeta-ble fungi previously considered. Another distinctive feature is that they donot invade the deep structures of the skin, such as the follicles and glands,. 3~ Fig. 286.—Microsporon furfur, fungus of pityriasis versicolor; X 700 (Kaposi). neither do they find a suitable soil in the structure of the hairs or nails, butthrive only in the superficial cells of the stratum corneum. Their abundance in this structure, together w
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . 7 may be straightor curved and wavy, more rarely branched, and are shorter than the vegeta-ble fungi previously considered. Another distinctive feature is that they donot invade the deep structures of the skin, such as the follicles and glands,. 3~ Fig. 286.—Microsporon furfur, fungus of pityriasis versicolor; X 700 (Kaposi). neither do they find a suitable soil in the structure of the hairs or nails, butthrive only in the superficial cells of the stratum corneum. Their abundance in this structure, together with the highly refractiveproperty of the conidia, accounts for the peculiar color of the eruption. Diagnosis.—Although the disease is often overlooked by the patientand mistaken for other affections by the physician, there is really no dif-ficulty in making a correct diagnosis. The affections most liable to be thusconfounded are chloasma, lentigo, seborrhea of the chest, pityriasis rosea, andmacular syphilide. By the laity all discolorations of this kind are attributedto the liver, and medical men have been known to fall into the same error. From chloasma it is distinguished by its appearing on parts covered bythe clothing, while chloasma usually occurs on the face and hands. Again,chloasma, although of a somewhat sim
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