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Encyclopedia Britannica



PINTO

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 630 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PINTO . The remarkable
brown
 , black and blue spots of discoloration of the whole
body
  met with endemically in
Mexico
 , Panama,
Colombia
  and
Venezuela
 , and known under the name of " pinto" or " mal de los pintos," were first claimed by Gastambide (Presse med. Beige, 1881, Nos. 3341) as due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, whose spores and even mycelial filaments may be detected among the deeper rows of cells of the rete mucosum. The disease appears to be one of the many forms of morbus miseriae; but it is contagious, and is sometimes seen in the well-to-do. In some villages of the western districts of
Tabasco
  (
Mexico
 ) it has been estimated that 9% of the inhabitants suffer from the pinto; M`Clellaa says that in 1826 in the City of Mexico the saw a whole
regiment
  of " pintados."


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