ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
849 
1867. This malady, identical in man and animals, is 
essentially contagious. Not only can it be transmitted from 
man to man, and from animal to animal, but it can be also 
conveyed from man to the animal. We may, then, admit, 
without hesitation, that it can likewise be transferred from 
animals to man. This is demonstrated by an unpublished 
experiment by Dr. R. Tripier, of Lyons, who successfully 
inoculated himself with Tinea from a mouse; it is also 
confirmed by clinical observation, as appears from the fol- 
lowing facts : 
On the 25th January, 1866, there was shown to us, at the 
clinic of the Veterinary School of Lyons, a young cat about 
two months old, in which we recognised, at the root of the 
claw of the middle toe of the right paw, a very fine favus 
patch. Two children of the house whence this cat was 
brought, a boy and girl, accompanied it. They feared that 
the cat, with which they were in the habit of playing, had 
given them its disease. They, in fact, each showed us two 
erythematous places which they begged us to examine. 
In the little girl, one of these spots was about the size 
of a two-franc piece, regularly circular, very pruriginous, of a 
red colour, and seated on the forehead at the commencement 
of the hair. According to the child’s account, it had been 
there about fifteen days. We saw nothing on its surface of the 
nature of vesicles or pustules, but only some yellowish crusts. 
A second patch of the same extent as the preceding existed 
on the inside of the thigh, a little above the knee. It offered 
the same characters as the first, with the exception that 
instead of crusts there were only some lamellae of epidermis 
on its surface. This was only eight days old. 
The boy had on each forearm an erythematous patch of a 
bright red colour, also very pruriginous, about the size of a 
silver five-franc piece, and exhibiting all the characteristics of 
those already described. 
I immediately sent these two patients to Dr. Rollet, who 
obligingly examined them and sent me the following note : 
“ To the naked eye the eruptions presented by the two 
children you sent to me have the principal characters of 
erythematous patches, on which the favus of the skin com- 
mences at those points which are only covered by fine hair ; 
but on examining, with the microscope, the epidermis scraped 
from the surface of these places, I have not been able to 
find appreciable traces of the fungus, though, nevertheless, I 
believe that the Achorion will finally become developed there, 
malady from a diseased mouse, and he was the means of conveying the para- 
site to his brother. — G. F.) 
