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Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(1):16.

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THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES
VOL. XXV
JANUARY, 1907
NO. 1

By JAY F. SCHAMBERG, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia.

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Dr JOSEPH GRINDON referred to an article in the British Journal of Dermatology, 1901, at the time of the great arsenic epidemic among English beer drinkers.

J Cutan Dis.
January 1907;25:26-33.

Everyone knew all about alcoholic neuritis. Everyone recognized its distinctive peripheral neuropathy with paresthesia, numbness, and pressure-point pain. Everyone agreed that the condition was due to distilled spirits. Everyone, that is, except Ernest Septimus Reynolds, MD.

Dr Reynolds' suspicion that some other factor was at work in alcoholic neuritis was first piqued when he began his service at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1887. Dr Reynolds soon realized that most of his patients with alcoholic neuritis drank only beer. How such a simple observation could have . . . [Full Text of this Article]