ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 55 
people who had been in contact with them none had Tinea; 
all the young were attacked with the malady in various degrees, 
but those forwarded were the worst. Dr. Mourraud pre¬ 
scribed a method of treatment for the others, of which cor¬ 
rosive sublimate formed the basis, and he hoped to cure them. 
The buck and doe, who lived all the time with their young, 
were until now exempt. 
The following was the character of the disease in the three 
patients. It may first be mentioned, however, that they w T ere 
very pretty little Russian rabbits, completely white, with the 
exception of their ears, which were black, and that their 
general condition, to judge from their vivacity, appeared to be 
very satisfactory. Only over nearly the whole surface of 
their bodies—on the paws, head, and trunk—were seen dis¬ 
seminated numerous yellow plates of variable dimensions, but 
all exactly resembling each other in form. Otherwise these 
crusts were not equally numerous nor equally distributed in 
the three subjects, which, to facilitate description, we shall 
designate numerically. 
No. 1 was the most affected. Crusts were found on 
every part of its body—head, ears, paws, and trunk. On the 
latter region the crusty patches were relatively less numer¬ 
ous, discrete, and often concealed by the hair. The 
paws, on the contrary, had them most frequently confluent, 
thick, and rugged, and the depilation was very extensive. On 
the head they were both isolated and confluent. 
No. 2 w 7 as the least affected. An attentive examination of 
it did not reveal any Favus on the trunk, but there were a 
large number on the limbs and head; in the latter region 
particularly we counted twenty-five to thirty on each ear, 
besides a group of four on the upper lip, and another group 
of three above the left nostril. 
Less affected than No. 1, but more than No. 2, No. 3 
also showed numerous favous plates; these were on the body, 
where they were comparatively rare, and on the paws, head, 
and ears, where they were found in very great numbers. 
Altogether the characters of the disease were so defined that 
it was impossible to mistake it, or to confound it with any 
other. So much was this the case that Dr. Mourraud, 
although he had never seen Tinea in animals, and was only 
made aware of its existence in them through reading my 
memoir, did not hesitate in recognising and diagnosing it. 
In the three patients its characteristics were identical, and 
these I shall attempt to summarise as exactly as possible. 
I have already said that it consisted in the presence of dry 
crusts, more or less large and thick, isolated or confluent. 
