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A Preliminary Report

EUGENE F. TRAUB, M.D.; DANIEL SCHULTHEIS, Jr., M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(2):272-276.

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THE USE of gas to kill fungi on the skin or scalp has to our knowledge never been tried. Gases have been employed to kill bacteria and fungi in fumigating processes in homes and ships and in horticulture. In the field of medicine, formaldehyde has been used to destroy myceliums and spores in shoes to prevent reinfection. However, the excessively long time of exposure required by this gas plus its irritant action made its use impractical for our purpose. The difficulty has been to obtain a relatively harmless gas—that is, one safe to handle, nonlethal to workers and patients and nonirritating to the skin. Second, the gas must act in a short enough time to be practical and to kill both the myceliums and spores. It was our plan to study various gases to determine whether one could be found which would fulfil our requirements.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

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