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of fungoid growth were visible, similar in character to those 
already described, and very much resembling the fungus of 
Mentagra. 
Eczema (Vesicular eruption). 
Case 1. — Eczema leproides. Thickened and worn-out epi- 
thelial scales, matted together ; likewise perfect epithelium, 
reddish -brown j small and very numerous fungi. 
Case 2. — Eczema auriculse. Masses of mycelia, with fila- 
ments and sporules. 
Case 3. — Eczema of general surface. Cast of a fine hair, 
consisting of filaments, surmounted bv epithelial scales 
(fig. 9). 
Case 4. — Eczema leproides. Hypertrophied epithelial 
scales only ; nuclei and nucleoli well marked. 
Case 5. — Mycelia branching from a broken portion of hair, 
with sporules distributed over the same. 
In four out of six cases, fungoid appearances were ob- 
servable ; in one of them the spores were in masses or heaps, 
and in another a cast of a hair was noticed, the hair having 
escaped, and the cast made up of a beautiful reticulation oi 
filaments, which had previously encircled the hair, precisely 
after the manner of that described in Porrigo decalvans ; 
yet there was no baldness here ; in fact the arm, and not the 
scalp, was the seat of the disease. 
Tinea — tarsi frequently appears as an eruptive skin 
disease about the head, face, and other parts of the 
body. Seven cases were taken from the eyelids (two were 
associated with eczema of the scalp), in four of which were 
found mycelia, with filaments and spores of a rounded form, 
mixed with a few accidental fat-cells, epithelial scales, and 
granular matter. 
In two I discovered isolated spores of the fungus, de- 
scribed by Ardsten as the Puccinia favi, which are almost, if 
not quite, identical with the spores of a fungus caught in the 
air. 
It is a remarkable and curious circumstance to find the 
spores of fungi penetrating to the interior of the body, and 
there committing ravages which are even more destructive 
to organic life than when they alight on the cutaneous sur- 
faces. It is related by Hannover, of a patient who had been 
a long time troubled with figures as of a string of pearls 
before his eye, and upon the operation of parasection being 
performed for the relief of distressing symptoms, a fluid 
escaped in which was found a branched mass of small 
