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Arch Dermatol. 2004;140:1196.

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THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES INCLUDING SYPHILIS
VOL. XXII.
OCTOBER, 1904.
NO. 10.

By PAUL G. WOOLLEY, M.D., Assistant Director Serum Laboratory, Manila, P. I.

(From the Government Serum Laboratory, Manila, P. I.)

UNDER the terms paño blanco, pinta, pinto, caraté, mal pintado, mal delos pintos, mal del pinto, peint, cute, cativi, quirica, pannus carateus, and the spotted disease of Central America, is included a group of dermatomycoses, characterized by peculiar pigmented patches on the skin, in the scales from which hyphæ, or spores, or both, of a mold-like fungus are found, which resemble in some cases penicillium, in others aspergillus, in still others monilia.

From one of the larger lesions on the ankle, scrapings were made and examined in a solution of caustic potash (25 per cent.). Among the epithelial cells, branching, segmented hyphæ were seen, forming a coarse meshwork. The mycelium was somewhat finer than that of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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