DRUG ERUPTIONS

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In employing the term "drug eruptions" in this paper, we intend to use the expression in a purely etiologic sense; that is, we include all cutaneous manifestations due to substances used as medicaments regardless of whether they are synthetic or derived from nature, or whether they are pure chemicals or mixtures. For the purposes of our presentation we further disregard the manner of contact with the drug, whether it has been used internally or externally. We also embrace within our definition all the various clinical types, including eczematous eruptions (as from quinine or butesin picrate), fixed eruptions (as from phenolphthalein, antipyrine or arsphenamine) and acneform eruptions (as from iodine or bromine). While we realize that such a classification is arbitrary, we believe it logical, perhaps just as logical as the designation of syphilis for the variegated manifestations of syphilitic infection, or of tuberculosis for the polymorphous pictures caused

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