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F. JAMES STUBBART, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(4):430.

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Occupation dermatitis in barbers and beauticians is most frequently due to contactants as primary irritants and sensitizers. In 1934 Louste and Thibaut^* described the foreign-body reaction found in the finger webs of barbers due to their hands having been pierced by hair from the heads of their customers. Joseph and Gifford³ observed 20 such lesions in the hands of 15 barbers after examining 115 barbers in the San Francisco area. I personally have seen very few of these lesions. However, recently a patient came to me with a condition with which I had been hitherto unfamiliar; nor have I seen it reported in the literature available to me.

She was a 40-year-old white woman, who had been a beautician for about 13 years. For the past six or seven years she noticed that the free ends of the nails were discolored and separated from the nail bed. She subsequently . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Muskegon Heights, Mich.

Footnotes
Received for publication March 23, 1956.

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