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Report of a Case

MIRIAM LUTEN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(5 PART I):798-799.

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In 1947, two reports of cases of poisoning by wax crayons appeared in the literature. The first one, by Jones and Brieger,¹ described a child in whom symptoms of severe paranitraniline poisoning developed as a result of the patient's eating red and orange crayons. In the second report, Clark² told of the case of a child who acquired methemoglobinemia from eating yellow and orange crayons. Schwartz, Tulipan and Peck³ stated that school teachers may acquire dermatitis of the terminal ends of the thumb and index fingers from the dye in colored crayons. They found that among 81 workers in refineries manufacturing paraffin, 19 had boils or acne on their arms and hands. They found that oil and wax acne differs from acne vulgaris in that the eruption in oil and wax acne is oftener found on the body and legs than on the face, which situation they . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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