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Report of a Case of Eighteen Months' Duration in Which the Husband Was the Carrier

Herman Goodman, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1937;36(3):611-612.

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Flit is a popular brand of insecticide. The opportunity for contact dermatitis is frequent, yet there is a paucity of reports on any ill effect.

I am able to report a case of such irritation, with the clinical and experimental evidence of the source of dermatitis. This persisted for eighteen months because the true nature of the affliction was not determined.

REPORT OF CASE

Mrs. F. G., a housewife aged 37, American born, moved to new quarters in April 1935 and immediately began to suffer from itching. Failing to secure relief through treatments prescribed by physicians, she employed various types of home medication. Prescriptions used by friends and relatives were accepted gratefully and discarded.

During November 1936 the patient came under my observation and showed a conglomeration of eruptive lesions. The lesions on the breasts, buttocks and protuberant portions of the body in general were individual papules interspersed with scratch . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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