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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 630 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINTO  . The remarkable See also:

brown, See also:black and See also:blue spots of discoloration of the whole See also:body met with endemically in See also:Mexico, See also:Panama, See also:Colombia and See also: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 See also:vegetable See also: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 .

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