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C. F. H. Vickers
Department of Dermatology Royal Liverpool Hospital Prescot Street PO Box 147 Liverpool, England L69 3BX

Arch Dermatol. 1985;121(2):170.

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To the Editor.—

I read with interest the letter by Valsecchi and Cainelli¹ in the August ARCHIVES, but I found their single reference startling.

A similar article had appeared in JAMA² and prompted me to reply. I stated that work in Europe on this topic dated back to 1967, when Sneddon and Garretts³ described the relationship between itching and iron deficiency.

Also, in 1972, Rook et al⁴ described this condition and, in 1974,I published a paper (Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians, London, February 1974) in which I described the relationship of iron deficiency to generalized pruritus in 87 patients.

I agree with the authors' conclusions but find it strange that data on this problem do not appear in American textbooks. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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