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COMMANDER W. N. GRAVES; LIEUTENANT COMMANDER C. C. CARPENTER; LIEUTENANT (JG) R. W. UNANGST

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1944;50(1):6-7.

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Many medicinal substances have been known to provoke or produce pompholyx, some of them being such unrelated agents as belladonna plasters, iodine applications, ingestion of salicylates,¹ injections of acetyl choline,² and ephedrine nasal sprays.³ However, several possibly causative factors might be involved when vesicular lesions appear during therapy with penicillin, as are illustrated in the following reports.

REPORT OF CASES

CASE 1.—One of us (W. N. G.), a white man 46 years of age, had recently been evacuated from a South Pacific theater of operations. He was first seen on March 30, 1944 for a vesicular eruption of hands and feet appearing within three hours after he received his first injection of 15,000 units of penicillin. Prior to this time there had been summer exacerbations of similar lesions during the past twenty-five years and also several episodes of an intertrigo of the groin, but at no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
(MC), U.S.N.R.; (MC), U.S.N.R.; (MC), U.S.N.

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This article has been released for publication by the Division of Publications of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the United States Navy.

The opinions and views set forth in this article are those of the writers and are not to be construed as reflecting the policies of the Navy Department.

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