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| | FAVUS - LoveToKnow Article on FAVUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Favus is commonest among the poorer Jews of Russia, Poland, Hungary, Galicia and the East, and among the same class of Mahommedans in Turkey, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Egypt, Algiers, andc. |
 | | It is not rare in the southern departments of France, in some parts of Italy, and in Scotland. |
 | | It is spread by contagion, usually from cats, often, however, from mice, fowls or dogs. |
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