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I would like to make 2 comments prompted by Zimmerman's essay,¹ "Dermatitis Factitia as a War Weapon," published last September in the ARCHIVES.

First, as indicated in Webster's Dictionary, maquis, from the Italian macchie, a "thicket, sketch, spot," refers to the thick scrubby underbrush of the French Mediterranean shores; and when capitalized, it designates a French guerrilla movement against Nazi occupation during World War II. Maquis fighters were called Maquisards.

Second, I recently came across an interesting piece of dermatologic literature,² during the preparation of a historical symposium³ honoring the memory of William Dubreuilh (1857-1935), the founder of the Bordeaux School of Dermatology. This article illustrates a point of view reverse to that mentioned by Zimmerman; namely, how difficult it was, for a dermatologist, to deal with simulators during a war period. Dubreuilh was locally in charge of a military center for dermatology and syphilis during . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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