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Report of a Case

FRED W. OBERST, Ph.D.; MAYNARD MURRAY, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1946;54(5):514-516.

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IT IS not infrequent to find sensitivity to penicillin in persons who come in contact with it or who have received it intramuscularly or intravenously. No report has been found in the literature describing this reaction after oral administration. Penicillin is described as a drug having practically no toxicity and of which extremely large doses are tolerated for long periods of time without ill effects.

Lyons¹ reported an urticarial reaction in 12 out of 209 patients receiving penicillin therapy. Pyle and Rattner² recorded a case of dermatitis venenata of face and genitalia in a physician who came in contact with penicillin while preparing solutions and administering them to patients. Three of his orderlies handling penicillin also experienced slight itching, though no dermatitis developed. Binkley and Brockmole³ reported 2 cases of contact dermatitis in which there was a focus of dermatophytosis pedis on the webs of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the Department of Biochemistry, The Wm. S. Merrell Co. (Dr. Oberst) and the Department of Physiology, University of Cincinnati (Dr. Murray).

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