Troubles in Sporotrichosis

Abstract

SINCE the days of the early Christian church Dorothy has been the patron saint of gardeners. Although she is probably seldom invoked today, the gardener in whom the occupational disease, sporotrichosis, develops and those who attend him may have wished for deliverance. A painless but persistent ulcer on the finger, with subsequent red or draining areas centrally, usually does not evoke a prolonged history taking to suggest the diagnosis. Contrariwise, who is left these days who cannot give a positive history of recently sprinkling the sphagnum moss, trimming the barberry or cutting the roses? The abscess, if it does not . . .