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SAMUEL FELDMAN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1922;5(5):584-585.

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Montgomery, in 1919, reports an instance of lichen planus in two brothers and reviews the literature on the subject. In all, there were twenty-five such instances reported, including his own case. From the extremely small number of cases of lichen planus in several members of one family, he argues that it cannot be due to a family predisposition. In the same article, he says that lichen planus bears a pronounced resemblance to the great microbic diseases, syphilis and leprosy. The fact that the lichens are beneficially influenced by arsenic and mercury, taken internally, the same drugs that are curative in syphilis, leads one to think that there may be some, even if a remote, relation between the causative factors of the two diseases. The idea of a similar etiology in the two diseases, however, is immediately dispelled, when we take into consideration the evident infectious nature of the one and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Adjunct Attending, Bronx Hospital, Department of Dermatology and Syphilis; Chief of Clinic, Bronx, Lebanon, and Beth David Hospital Dispensaries NEW YORK

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