look like concretions. Crocker states that he is
informed by White of Boston that this disease is common in America in
association with alopecia furfuracea, and is erroneously thought to be
the cause of the loss of hair, hence the popular name, "hair-eaters."

Thomson describes a case of mycosis fungoides in a young girl of the
age of fourteen, whom he saw in Brussels toward the end of October,
1893. She was the third of a family of 13 children of whom only five
survived. Of the children born subsequently to the patient, the first
were either premature or died a few days after their births. The
seventh was under treatment for interstitial keratitis and tuberculous
ulceration of the lips and throat. The disease in the patient made its
appearance about seven months previously, as a small raised spot in the
middle of the back just above the buttocks. Many of the patches
coalesced. At the time of report the lumbar region was the seat of the
disease, the affection here presenting a most peculiar appearance,
looking as if an enormous butterfly had alighted on the patient's back,
with its dark blue wings covered with silvery scales, widely expanded.
The patient was not anemic and appeared to be in the best of health.
None of the glands were affected. According to Thomson there is little
doubt that this disease is caused by non-pyogenic bacteria gaining
access to the sweat-glands. The irritation produced by their presence
gives rise to proliferation of the connective-tissue corpuscles.

Jamieson reports a case of mycosis in a native of Aberdeenshire aged
thirty-eight. There was no history of any previous illness. The
disease began three years previous to his application for treatment, as
a red, itching, small spot on the cheek. Two years later lumps
presented themselves, at first upon his shoulders. The first thing to
strike an observer was the offensive odor about the patient. In the
hospital wards it made all the occupants sick. The various stages of
the disease were marked upon the different parts of the body. On the
chest and abdomen it resembled an eczema, on the shoulders there were
brown, pinkish-red areas. On the scalp the hair was scanty, the
eye-brows denuded, and the eyelashes absent. The forehead was leonine
in aspect. From between the various nodosities a continual discharge
exuded, the nodosities being markedly irregular over the limbs. The
backs of the hands, the dorsums of the feet, the wrists and ankles, had