Half a century ago our knowledge of mycoses, especially pulmonary mycoses, was rather fragmentary. It was limited to rare case reports as oddities. Accordingly, in the Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologic the chapter on lung diseases caused by budding and spore-forming fungi by J. W.ATJEN (Halle) took up as little as 27 pages. Only ARNDT (Gottingen) could report on several cases from which he made his observations on actinomycotic changes of the lungs and pleura. Since then our knowledge of mycoses has deepened and expanded in an unpre- dictable manner. This progress...
Half a century ago our knowledge of mycoses, especially pulmonary mycoses, was rather fragmentary. It was limited to rare case reports as oddities. Ac...
