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Leslie M. Smith, M.D.; Raymond P. Hughes, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1938;38(5):780.

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So far as we have been able to ascertain, the Mexican rubber plant, or guayule, has not been reported as a cause of contact dermatitis. We shall describe a case of dermatitis due to contact with that shrub in a person whose skin showed marked hypersensitivity to it.

REPORT OF A CASE

U. S., a middle-aged sculptor, presented an acute erythematovesicular dermatitis of the face, neck, forearms and hands of ten days' duration. It was of sufficient severity to require hospitalization. The patient was employed in the construction of some statuary on the top of a mountain and had been in contact with several varieties of plants growing there. He suspected these plants to be the cause of his dermatitis.

Patch tests were performed with the plaster which he was using, creosote bush and several other unidentified plants with which he had come in contact. All tests gave negative results . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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El Paso, Texas

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