Remak gave all the credits of his discovery to his mentor Schoenlein who first published the fungal etiological report of favus in 1839. He himself did not publish his work, but he permitted the reference of his observations in a dissertation by Xavier Hube in 1837. This detection is also a landmark in medical history because this is the first description of a microbe causing a human disease. However, the fungal aetiology of tinea was first detected by Robert Remak, a Polish physician who first observed the presence of hyphae in the crusts of favus. In 1806, Alibert used the term ‘favus’ to describe the honey-like exudate in some scalp infections.
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Due to similarity in the structure of circular lesion of dermatophytosis on the smooth skin with the circular hole made by moth, Cassius Felix introduced the term ‘tinea’ to describe the lesions.
The keratin-destroying moths which made circular holes in the woollen garments are known as Tinea. Throughout the middle ages, several descriptions of dermatophytosis were produced where it is described as ‘tinea’. The first description of dermatophytosis was recorded by Celsus, a Roman encyclopaedist who described a suppurative infection of scalp (‘porrigo’ or ‘kerion of Celsus’) in De Re Medicina (30 A.D.).
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