TINEA IMBRICATA (TOKELAU) 



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of its fungus, though, as might be expected, using the technique of 

 that time, attempts at growing it did not succeed. More recently 

 the condition has been studied by Tribondeau, Nieuwenhuis, Wehmer, 

 and many others. Castellani has succeeded in growing the fungus 

 artificially, and in reproducing the disease by inoculating pure 

 cultures of it ; he has shown also that there is more than one variety 

 of the affection and^more than one species of the fungus. He has 



Fig. 809. — Tinea Imbricata. 



demonstrated that the aspergillus-like fungi described by a number 

 of authorities are merely saprophytes, and that the true aetiological 

 agents are those fungi for which he has created the genus Endo- 

 dermophyton. 



Climatology. — The home of tinea imbricata seems to have been 

 the Malay Peninsula, from whence it spread towards the south and 

 the east to many islands of the South Pacific, northwards to some 



