Abstract
In 1910, epidermophytosis was supposed to be a well described clinical entity when Sabouraud had added to the clinical aspects hitherto known epidermophytosis of the hands and feet. Other publications which appeared before 1914 (as articles by Dudumi, 1913; Nicolau, 1913, and Fischer, 1914) only completed the knowledge of the different clinical types of the disease without offering new facts. In 1914, the discernment that the clinical aspect of epidermophytosis was not an etiologic entity began to gain consideration. This period was inaugurated by the publications of Marie Kaufmann-Wolf; the results of other publications will not be considered, because they appeared in the epoch before Sabouraud and have not been proved by cultures (Tilbury Fox. Pellizarri, Mansouroff, Dubreuilh, Moukhtar, Whitfield and others). Knowledge of epidermophytosis has continued to develop in this direction; today, although it is the most complicated form of dermatomycosis, it is given greatest consideration in the field
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