A Note on the Cause of Pemphigus Contagiosus (Manson)
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name by Hanson is very common, especially in children, in Madras during the hot weather. Castellani, in his book on tropical diseases written in conjunction with Chalmers, and in his article on skin diseases in Byam and Archibald's " Practice of Medicine in the Tropics," describes the condition under the name pyosis and names four varieties, pyosis uiansoni, tropica, palmaris and corletti. The particular variety to which we refer fits in
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Pemphigus Contagiosus
do not indicate this as a feature or stage of the malady. The granulomatous conditions seen in the "Oriental sore" is entirely absent in Pemphigus Contagiosus. Destruction has been held to constitute a prominent mark of local infection by the Leishman parasite elsewhere. These are important points ; but Turner's discovery is, nevertheless, a very remarkable one, and adds another puzzle to the a...
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