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December 3, 1949, Vol 141, No. 14 >
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Mycoses and Practical Mycology: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners

JAMA. 1949;141(14):1030. doi:10.1001/jama.1949.02910140070033.
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The author has tried to present a considerable amount of information regarding classification and subdivisions of fungi, the history and geographic distribution of fungous diseases and their clinical features and treatment. It would seem that covering all these subjects in a small textbook would of necessity make it impossible to cover any of them adequately. Unfortunately, this is exactly what has happened.

There are a number of factual details with which one must take issue. It seems unlikely that washerwomen's disease "is probably brought about by the women refraining from the use of soap with its fungistatic alkalinity." On the contrary, most experts in the United States would forbid the use of soap in cases of washerwomen's disease. The administration of quinacrine hydrochloride for epidermophytosis of the hands and feet is, to say the least, not an accepted practice. There is no reason to include erysipeloid and pinta in a

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