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Thomas W. Nisbet, M.D.; Charles R. Caskey, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1938;37(5):900-904.

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Arsenic-Resistant Syphilis. Presented by DR. NELSON PAUL ANDERSON and DR. RICHARD EVANS, Santa Barbara, Calif. (by invitation).

E. A., a white woman aged 33, was referred because of an eruption on her face. The lesions are dull purplish, with a slight tendency to scaling. In July 1936 she was treated with ultraviolet radiation for a lesion below the left eye. After this lesions developed generally over the face. The Wassermann reaction was found to be positive, and she was given three injections of neoarsphenamine at weekly intervals. The injections were discontinued, as no improvement was observed. No antisyphilitic treatment was given for nine months. The eruption has resisted fairly large and frequent doses of neoarsphenamine and of bismuth preparations. It was noted that after each injection of an arsenical a distinct local Herxheimer effect would occur in all the lesions. The patient, because of the early discontinuance of therapy, was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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