Mycetoma Infection: An Appeal for Material

A ni-:\v science has arisen of recent years in topical medicine, and is rapidly coming to the front; that of medical mycology. Many of the skin diseases of the tropics are due to infection with fnngi, and recent articles by Lt.-Col. H. w. Acton, i.M.S., and his assistants, Dr. C. McGuire, Dr. Ganapati Panja and Dr. Iv. P. Banner ji, show how important this infection is ln gen?rah medical practice in India. Cryptococcus infections are extremely prevalent in birds and animals, and have been reported in man from time to time. Rhinosporidium sccberi is Essentially an Indian disease. Sarcocystis infection is possibly of fungoid origin. It is possible that the mysterious Rickettsia bodies which are ^sponsible for typhus fever, for spotted fever ?f the Rocky Mountains, and for the seven-day fever of Japan are of fungoid nature. Granuloma inguinale has long been suspected to be of fungoid origin. Fungi?such, as Blastocyst's h?minis??frequently parasitise the intestinal tract of man, where they seem to be non-pathogenic, but are especially associated with indigestion due to starchy food-stuffs.