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OBSERVATIONS AMONG MILITARY FORCES

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER WERNER W. DUEMLING

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1945;52(2):75-86.

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During the past two years it has been my privilege to be attached to a Naval hospital at which large numbers of men returning from the Southwest Pacific have been received for treatment and disposition. A review of the records for the past year reveals that approximately 5 per cent of all admissions to the hospital were to the dermatologic service, and of this number 20 per cent were for fungous diseases of the skin. Of patients seen by me for consultations either from the other services in the hospital or from the outlying Naval and Marine activities to which I am consultant, a diagnosis of fungous disease was made for 20 per cent. Thus, the need for prompt recognition and institution of proper treatment of these diseases is apparent, lest they become epidemic among the enlisted personnel. Although no rare diseases have been encountered, patients . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MC-V(S), U.S.N.R.

Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Chicago, June 20, 1944.

Material on which this article is based is presented through the cooperation of Captain M. D. Willcutts (MC), U.S.N., and Captain James F. Hays (MC), U.S.N.

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 writer and are not to be construed as reflecting the policies of the Navy Department.

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