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JULIUS E. GINSBERG, M.D.; FREDERIC T. BECKER, M.D.; S. WILLIAM BECKER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1937;36(6):1165-1170.

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In the attempt to understand epidermal sensitivity (eczema) in man, it is only natural that fundamental studies should have first been carried out with a favorite laboratory animal, the guinea-pig.

A review of the literature reveals that Bloch¹ was the first investigator to succeed in producing eczema (epidermal sensitization) in the guinea-pig. He and his co-workers found that when a small area of the skin was abraded and painted with primula extract, both local and general epidermal sensitivity appeared later.

After Bloch's experiments a number of investigators have reported studies on sensitization of guinea-pigs to paraphenylenediamine, and the studies of Landsteiner and Jacobs² stand out, perhaps, as the most illuminating. In the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute these experimenters found that by repeated intracutaneous inoculation or repeated inunction of guinea-pigs with a number of simple compounds they obtained cutaneous sensitization which was easily reproducible. Positive effects were obtained . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO; MINNEAPOLIS; CHICAGO

From the Section of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago.

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