BLASTOMYCOSIS OF THE SKIN. 403 



definite description of the organisms is given by Sakurane and Okugawa. 

 The patient was a Japanese girl age 9 who had three ulcerating nodules 

 on the face and nose and an enlarged submaxillary gland. Cultures 

 from all the lesions were black, with gray filamentous edges and con- 

 sisted mostly of yeast-like bodies which grew best on sugars. 



VI. CONCLUSION. 



In the Philippines a blastomycotic infection of the skin is one of the 

 common dermatologic findings. It exists in at least three forms, two 

 of which are milder than those seen in the United States. It is usually 

 unrecognized; in the milder forms it is taken to be ring-worm or some 

 form of dhobie itch; in severer types it is diagnosed as tuberculosis or 

 syphilis. The milder types yield to local antiseptics, the more chronic 

 and severe only to potassium iodide given internally. Further develop- 

 ment of the subject will be necessary before these types, as well as those 

 found in horses, -in ulcers, in sprue and hill diarrhoea can be definitely 

 classified. 



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