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Thermogenic Anhidrosis

EVERETT C. FOX, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(2):173-180.

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IN 1944, Wolkin, Goodman and Kelley¹ described a new syndrome when they reported 8 cases of failure of the sweat mechanism. The patients, observed in an Army camp situated in the California desert, presented a typical history that did not conform to that of either heat stroke or heat exhaustion. The symptoms were associated with, or preceded by a period of excessive sweating, and, usually, some degree of prickly heat; then a cessation of sweating occurred over the entire body below the neck, with an outpouring of sweat from the face and neck. The systemic symptoms were generalized weakness, exhaustion, sensation of body warmth, dizziness, headache, palpitation and rapid respiration. The objective findings were warm, dry skin from the neck down, with profuse sweating of the face and neck. There was a generalized, fine papular eruption resembling goose flesh, and in cases of longer duration there was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DALLAS, TEXAS

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Southwestern Medical College.

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