Commentary: Treatment of Dermatomycoses With Griseofulvin

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There is an implied serious responsibility to anyone who introduces a new drug into medicine, especially if its effects will be systemic and it is taken by patients for months or years. Therefore, it was a source of personal satisfaction for me to review Index Medicus back to 1959 and find no clear-cut case of a patient who died of griseofulvin administration. On the contrary, the drug had an enormous worldwide impact for good—curing fungus infections of the scalp, nails, hands, and other areas that were impervious to all previously known treatments. Serious lifetime infections, eg, favus, can now be taught only from old photographs, because the disease that was so mutilating and so common in some countries that special schools had to be established for children has practically disappeared with griseofulvin treatment. Hundreds of articles have appeared from practically every country in the world extolling the value of this

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