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PENETRATION WITH ORGANIC AND INORGANIC COPPER SALTS AND THE USE OF DETERGENTS IN IONTOPHORESIS

COMMANDER ARMAND J. PEREYRA

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1945;52(2):96-105.

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Iontophoresis, the introduction of ions of electrolytic salts into the tissues of the body for therapeutic purposes by means of the galvanic current, was developed as a method of treatment during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The experiments carried out with iontophoresis in animals and in human beings by Leduc at the turn of the century helped to create new applications in this field of therapy.¹ Since its introduction, this procedure, also referred to as medical ionization or ion transfer, has been tried in the treatment of almost every accessible surface tissue in the body, notably in the eyes,² the nose,³ the ears,⁴ the skin,⁵ the teeth⁶ and genital tissues.⁷ Notwithstanding the long period of clinical trial, the value of iontophoresis as a method of increasing the penetration of therapeutic substances through the intact surface membranes of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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(MC), U.S.N.

From the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, United States Marine Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y.

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

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