TRANSMISSIBILITY OF TINEA TONSURANS. 
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man who attended to the pony at the Veterinary College, showed 
a most luxuriant growth of fungus in the mycelial and the 
sporular form; there were miniature threads and also mature 
threads in abundance, breaking up into the reproductive bodies 
called ee spores” or s( sporules” by medical men, but more 
properly termed “ conidia.” The adjoining figure gives a 
very good illustration of the characters of the fungus present 
in the skin of one of the men. There were indications of a 
fructification possessing the characters of periicillium, and Dr. 
Fox had no doubt that cultivation experiments would give 
absolute evidence of the production of the latter from the 
tricophyton in the instance alluded to. “ Perhaps I may be 
allowed to say,” he adds, “ that many years ago, I concluded 
from my own observation and experiments that the tricophy¬ 
ton, the oidium, and the human epi- and ento-phytes are 
identical in nature with, though differing in mere form from. 
