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PRELIMINARY REPORT

J. FREDERICK BURGESS, M.B.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1927;16(2):131-140.

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The relationship between intestinal disorders and eczema has been the subject of much controversy among dermatologists. Eczemas associated with certain metabolic causes, to wit, "diabetic eczema," were recognized long ago, and more recently those associated with low sugar tolerance, have been recognized, as pointed out by McGlasson¹ and Ayers² in the United States and Campbell³ in Canada. The work of Bloch⁴ and others on the factor of external irritation has tended to swing the pendulum too far away from internal causes. The undoubted cases of eczema reported by Wise and Ramirez⁵ and by others showed definitely that eczema, particularly chronic, itchy, lichenified types, could be due to a food sensitization in an allergic person. Intestinal toxins as possible causes have been given variable consideration in textbooks on dermatology. Stelwagon and Gaskill say:

Digestive debility, dyspepsia, and its frequent accompaniment, constipation, must also be given a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Lecturer in Dermatology, McGill University; Associate Dermatologist, Montreal General Hospital MONTREAL, CANADA

From the Dermatological Clinic of Prof. G. Gordon Campbell, Montreal General Hospital.

Footnotes
Read at a meeting of the Canadian Dermatological Association, Toronto, May 7, 1927.

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