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similar disease in mice and other rodents have been ob- 

 served in Europe, in America and in Australia. This 

 disease is transmissible to man as a skin disease. It has 

 been observed, for example, that those who have handled 

 sacks gnawed by mice affected with this disease contracted 

 a skin disease or f avus of the exposed parts of the body and 

 not of the scalp. A somewhat similar disease caused by 

 Achorion gallince is the favus in the domestic fowl. This 

 is a disease in which the fungi form a fungous collar 

 around the base of the feathers and may attack the head, 

 the comb, the wattles and ear lobes. It is transmissible to 

 other animals and to man. 



