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TREATMENT OF HYPERHIDROSIS AND SYMMETRIC LIVIDITIES OF THE FEET
J. GARDNER HOPKINS, M.D.;
ARTHUR B. HILLEGAS, M.D.;
R. BRUCE LEDIN, M.D.;
GERBERT C. REBELL, M.D.;
EARL CAMP, M.D.
Arch Derm Syphilol. 1948;57(5):850-857.
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IN THE course of a study of dermatophytosis in the infantry troops at Fort Benning, Ga., numerous cases of severe inflammation of the feet were encountered which could not, on the basis of our evidence, be ascribed to fungous or to pyogenic infection or to sensitization to footgear. It appeared that the essential cause was hyperhidrosis. The cases were of two types.
DIFFUSE HYPERHIDROSIS
The larger group was of men who showed excessive sweating of the entire foot. The skin was often macerated. There was frequent erythema and edema of the dorsal and plantar surfaces of the toes and often denudation of the corneal epithelium and fissures on the webs of the toes. In a number of men definite nonsuppurative cellulitis of the toes developed. All toes were uniformly involved, and the complaints of the men were of burning and pain rather than of itching.
In 201 such cases fungi
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Author Affiliations
NEW YORK
Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Murray Bay, Quebec, Canada, June 1947.
The work described in this paper was done under a contract recommended by the Committee on Medical Research between the Office of Scientific Research and Development and Columbia University. The observations were made at Fort Benning, Ga., through the courtesy of Colonel William R. Denton, Post Surgeon.
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