schoenlein

Updated: May 21, 2025

But the crowning achievement of the period in this direction was the discovery made by the German, J. L. Schoenlein, in 1839, that a very common and most distressing disease of the scalp, known as favus, is really due to the presence and growth on the scalp of a vegetable organism of microscopic size.

Edward Huntington Williams - A History of Science — Volume 4