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Excerpt from The Journal of the Kansas Medical Society, Vol. 18: January 1918 to December 1918, Inclusive Comment - The origin of this case is uncertain. One of the horses driven from Colorado developed distemper after arriv ing in Neosho County, but recovered. There were no open sores nor glandular enlarge ment according to the statement of the father. The other horse was healthy. The children brought a pet rabbit from Colo rado. And this, also. Appeared to be in a healthy condition. The only explanation of the origin of the infection that seems plausible is that the patient became ih fected at one of the numerous camping places along the route. This case, to my mind, is typical of sporotrichosis, in this country, and is at tended with several interesting features. First, the age of the patient, she being four years old; there having been but two younger reported, one by Quain. Age three years, and the other by Ruediger and Smith. Age three and a half years, both females. Second, that no treatment or household remedies had been applied pre vions to my seeing the case. Third, the clean condition of the initial lesion, no mixed infection. Fourth, smears made from the lesion demonstrated the organism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.