PINTO  . The remarkable

brown, black and blue spots of discoloration of the whole body met with endemically in Mexico, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, and known under the name of " pinto" or " mal de los pintos," were first claimed by Gastambide (Presse med . Beige, 1881, Nos . 33–41) as due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, whose spores and even mycelial filaments may be detected among the deeper rows of cells of the rete mucosum . The disease appears to be one of the many forms of morbus miseriae; but it is contagious, and is sometimes seen in the well-to-do .