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CHARLES G. STEFFEN, M.D.; MURRAY ZIMMERMAN, M.D.; RICHARD MIHAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(1):76-79.

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Introduction

Minor surgical procedures are occasionally necessary for patients who have either a known sensitivity to procaine or who obtain little or no anesthesia from it. It was felt that a substitute drug of a different chemical structure would be of definite value. One of the physiologic properties of the antihistamines is that of local anesthesia.¹ It was therefore decided to proceed with a clinical investigation of one of them, diphenhydramine hydrochloride (Benadryl) as a local anesthetic.

Review of the Literature

Rosenthal and Minard² noticed in 1939 that thymoxyethyldiethylamine produced local anesthesia to the same extent as but of longer duration than 1% procaine (Novocaine) when injected intracutaneously or applied locally to the denuded skin in 0.5% concentration. Burchell and Varco³ noted that blebs produced in the human skin by the intracutaneous injection of either thymoxyethyldiethylamine or N'ethyl-N'-diethylaminoethylaniline were anesthetic only over . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Covina, Calif.; Los Angeles

From the Department of Dermatology, University of Southern California, Maximilian E. Obermayer, Director; and the Section of Dermatology, Los Angeles County General Hospital, Maximilian E. Obermayer and Maxwell J. Wolff, Co-chairmen.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 10, 1955.

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