Word: pityrosporum
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...germ, Pityrosporum ovalis, had long been suspected in dandruff. But no bacteriologist before Drs. Moore & Kile had been able to cultivate it for more than two or three generations. Trouble was that in the beginning most bacteriologists thought that Pityrosporum ovalis could be cultured like diphtheria or scarlet fever bacteria. Actually the germ of dandruff is a fungus like yeast and needs special soil for growth. Drs. Moore & Kile raised it on wort agar...
Since there is a dandruff germ, the disease must be catching, Drs. Moore & Kile imply. Someone may invent a vaccine against it. Meantime if any of the 165 manufacturers of hair tonics supposed to eradicate dandruff can prove that their stuff actually reaches and kills Pityrosporum ovalis, they should do a big business with the 25,000,000 U. S. men who suffer with dandruff...
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