Abstract

SUMMARY(1) The rarety of cutaneous tuberculosis as one approaches the tropics is discussed.(2) Climatic conditions favorable or unfavorable to the disease are compared.(3) A case of multiple lupus vulgaris transported to south Florida is presented, with positive proof of the diagnosis by animal inoculations of diseased tissue.(4) Comments are made upon the pathogenicity of this case, including reasons for considering the lesions to be of hematogenous dissemination and the infecting tuberculous organism to be of the human type.(5) The treatment especially emphasizing tuberculinotherapy and heliotherapy is outlined.(6) The subsequent favorable course of the disease is described.(7) Comment is made upon the general and local effects of heliotherapy.