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John Godwin Downing, M.D.
Boston.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;33(6):1070.

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To the Editor:—In a recent article entitled "Study of a Group of Handlers of Arsenic Tri-Oxide," by H. G. Irvine and D. D. Turnacliff (ARCH. DERMAT. & SYPH. 33:306 [Feb.] 1936), mention was made that no book on toxicology or industrial medicine, published even as late as 1934, includes mention of the use of sodium thiosulfate for the treatment of industrial arsenic poisoning. This point is well taken; however, in the column of Queries and Minor Notes in The Journal of the American Medical Association (99:1374 [Oct. 15] 1932), the use of this drug was advised in a series of cases of dermatoses in laborers who sprayed potato plants with a combination of calcium arsenite and paris green. This reference was used in my recent paper entitled "Industrial Dermatoses: Treatment and Legal Aspects: Review of Recent Literature," published in the Journal of Industrial Hygiene (17:138 . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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