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WITH A BRIEF REPORT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN GUINEA-PIGS

JULIUS E. GINSBERG, M.D.; CLARENCE BERNSTEIN, Jr., M.D.; L. VIVIAN IOB, Ph.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1937;36(5):1033-1038.

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For the past five or six years a number of investigators have been studying the effects of the feeding of oils containing highly unsaturated fatty acids (with a high iodine number) to patients with infantile eczema and chronic dermatitis (atopic eczema, generalized neurodermatitis).

A. E. Hansen,¹ who was originally responsible for the idea of feeding children oils containing unsaturated fatty acids for infantile eczema had his inspiration from the experiments of Burr and Burr,² who noted a cutaneous disease in rats having a deficiency in unsaturated fatty acids. Hansen found low iodine numbers for the serums of patients with infantile eczema and noted a rise of these iodine numbers coincident with clinical improvement which followed feeding of corn oil or linseed oil. He also noted that clinical improvement was accompanied or preceded by a return of the iodine number of the fatty acids in the serum from subnormal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Sections of Dermatology and Allergy, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago.

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