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CAPTAIN EDWARD D. FREIS

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1946;53(1):34-38.

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Because of the large numbers of persons afflicted, dermatophytosis remains an important therapeutic problem in military and civilian life. It has been well said that the conditions favoring the perpetuation of the infection are heat, moisture and darkness of the leather-shod foot. The failure of most therapeutic procedures in treating ambulatory patients is due to the continuance of these conditions during the course of therapy.

It was thought possible that if any one of the three factors which perpetuate the infection, heat, moisture and darkness, were eliminated the fungi could no longer survive. Most attempts at controlling moisture have been based on the use of foot powders which absorb the sweat after it has reached the surface. The course of treatment proposed herein utilizes the basic principle that sweat formation is inhibited at its source, thus producing a drier epidermis than with any other known method. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

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