Abstract
THE specialist research worker in a limited field is not usually accorded a large share of public fame, even though his contributions be enlightened and fundamental. Raymond Sabouraud performed a surprising amount of original investigation, at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, into the fungi which cause skin diseases of animals. A paper by Dr. L. Grigoraki (Mycopathologia, 2, Fasc. 3, 171-200; March 1940) indicates the historical setting of Sabouraud's activities, and shows how greatly the science of dermatology is indebted to him. Many of the skin diseases are caused by species of fungi belonging to the genus Trichophyton. No fewer than twenty-five species of this genus are from Sabouraud's original description, and his studies embraced the disease and its prevention, in addition to the causal parasite; X-ray therapy developed into a cure at his hands, with the help of his associates. Most eloquent of all, however, is the citation of Sabouraud's published works, which occupy twenty-four pages in the paper under review, and provide the only monument which their author appeared to desire.
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Raymond Sabouraud. Nature 145, 968 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145968a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145968a0