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responds in detail with the North American variety and de 
Beurmann and Gougerot have examined it and pronounced it 
identical with the French strains. This identity has been 
conceded by Lutz and Splendore. 
Balino and Marco del Pont't in 1907 discovered a case of 
this disease in Buenos Ayres, and Greco,’® also in 1907, one 
from Uruguay. Greco suggested calling his organism Sporo- 
thrichum schenckii-beurmanne. According to him it agrees 
with the organisms of both Schenck and de Beurmann. Other 
cases have since appeared in South America. 
SPOROTRICHOSIS IN MADAGASCAR 
On the island of Madagascar Carougeau’® in 1908 found 
this infection in mules and in horses. It is a common disease 
there. Clinically and pathologically it agrees in every way 
with the disease as it appears in man. It is either a dis- 
seminating or an ascending gummatous sporotrichosis and 
responds promptly to potassium iodide. Carougeau repro- 
duced the disease experimentally in the mule by intravenous 
injection. He reports a human infection in a veterinarian 
who punctured himself while operating on a sick mule. He 
clearly differentiates this infection from the closely related 
but more serious one of Saccharomyces farciminosus. The 
sporotrichum from the mules was carefully described by 
Carougeau and agrees with WSporotrichum schenckit. De 
Beurmann and Gougerot have identified it with the French 
organism and this identity has been acknowledged by Carou- 
geau, 
As to distribution, then, sporotrichosis is practically a 
world-wide disease having now been noted in North America, 
South America, Europe, Madagascar and probably India. 
The chief focus in Europe is France but cases have been ob- 
served also in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, England, 
Belgium and Spain. In North America, as already stated, 
it is largely confined to the Missouri River Valley. 
“Argentina Med., 2, p. 23, 1908. 
% Argentina Med., 45, p. 699, 1907. 
“Bull. et. Mem, de la Soc. Med. de Hopit. de Paris, 84, p. 507, 1909. 
