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cauterization had fallen off. This took place slowly, and 
when accomplished some sores remained whose cicatrization 
was not so rapid as I would have wished; so that it was not 
until the beginning of February that I could consider myself 
entirely free from the disease, the last traces of which had 
not quite disappeared on the 20th February, 1869. 
There can, then, be no doubt of the fact that the Tinea of 
animals is transmissible to mankind, and this observation, 
by its results, throws light upon the others, less complete, 
reported in the course of this work, and which, while they 
are really significant, might without it be easily mistaken ; it 
proves that the danger I have shown might result from the 
contact of diseased animals with mankind is not chimerical. 
But the observation appears to me to be really important 
in another point of view ; it proves, in fact, that in the 
diagnosis of cutaneous parasitic affections the anatomical form 
alone must not be relied upon, and that it is more essential to 
discover the cause —to find the parasite itself. 
The disease with which I was affected had the form of 
Herpes circinnatus. M. Rollet thought at first that it was 
this malady, and so did several other competent medical men 
to whom I showed it. And yet, as I have said, and as I 
repeat, it was only by a more careful examination, and espe¬ 
cially by studying the cryptogam, that we were able to 
attribute its production unhesitatingly to the achorion , and 
not to the trichophyton.— (. Uecueil de Med. Veterinaire , Sep¬ 
tember, 1869.) 
Lately I have had oecasion to collect some new' facts, and 
to make some additional remarks on the Tinea of animals, and 
these remarks I believe I ought to resume here. 
In the lecture to which this article is a complement I said 
that, since 1864, I had frequent opportunities for observing 
the disease in cats brought to the clinic of our Veterinary 
School ; that I have once seen it in the dog, and that it had 
been noticed incidentally, by some few observers, among 
mice. This year (1869) I have had occasion to see it myself 
in this little rodent, and also in the rabbit, an animal in 
which it had not yet been witnessed. Lastly, I have been 
able to signalise certain cases of its transmission from animals 
to man. The following is a succinct resume of the observa¬ 
tions I have gathered on this subject. 
1. Tinea in Mice. 
On May 29th, 1869, the students of the Veterinary School 
brought me twm mice they had caught and killed in their 
rooms, and whose bodies were covered with yellow crusts. 
