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S. SHERWELL. 
CASES OF FAVUS CONTAGION FROM THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
By S. Sherwell, M.D., 
Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Long Island College Hospital; Attendin 
Physician, Brooklyn Hospital; Surgeon to Skin and Throat Department, 
Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital.. 
It has occurred to me that the brief relation of seven 
cases (four in the same family) of favus contagion from lowe 
animals, might be of some interest to the Society, in viev 
first of the prompt and easy recognition of the disease, an 
the equally clear chain of evidence in connection with th 
transmission thereof. 
Mr. A-, a gentleman living in a suburban villa nea 
Brooklyn, to whom l have previously been of service in r< 
lieving him of a chronic skin affection, came to me in grea, 
perturbation of spirit, December 3, 1891, bringing with hir 
his two daughters, aged respectively about ten and twent 
years, each of whom, otherwise in magnificent health, waj 
suffering from a skin lesion or eruption of recent date, and i 
both of whom the lesions were similar in situ, that is to sajj 
on arms, neck and bust. The symptoms were much mor 
marked in the case of the eldest, who, when arms were e: 
posed/showed a patch of favus eruption on upper and oute 
aspect of arms near deltoid region, particularly inflamed an 
covered with sparse but evident scutula of the achorion—th 
other patches in regions mentioned above, while evidently c 
the character of vegetable parasitic order, were not so we 
marked, nor were they in the younger sister. 
Recognizing the lesion, as it was easy to do at sight, I ii 
stituted inquiry as to whether they, the family, kept any pc 
animals, and was told in reply that they had three dogs, grer 
favorites, the smallest of which, a Scotch terrier, was th 
special pet of the elder young lady, even sleeping on her be 
and being constantly with her, and being fondled by her; th 
other dogs, a setter and a hound respectively, also were mad 
much of by the whole famiy, and admitted freely to hous< 
etc. On asking if they did not scratch themselves a goo 
deal was assured they did, of late particularly, acting as 
