My object in this study has been to classify the common fungi of the intestinal canal in Porto Rico in health and in disease and to establish the relative frequency ofMonilia psilosisin the normal bowel and in that of persons suffering from tropical sprue. This work was begun in November, 1924, and has been carried steadily forward to date by myself and my assistant, Miss L. M. Dalmau, in the mycologic laboratory of the School of Tropical Medicine of the University of Porto Rico, which is functioning in cooperation with Columbia University of New York. The clinical data have been confined to my own cases; diagnosis, observation and treatment have been personal. The majority of these patients have not been treated in the hospital but have been seen at more or less regular intervals, generally once a week. The original intention was to assemble data from cultures of
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