TEXTILE DERMATITIS IN MEN

Abstract
BEFORE commencing my subject, I should like to state how much I appreciate the honor of being asked to address the dermatologic section of the American Medical Association, and to express my warmest thanks to the President and the office bearers not only for their kindness in asking me, but for the generous reception which has been granted me. The Greeks, as usual, had a word for it—"It is not given to every man to go to Athens"—but I, a citizen of Edinburgh, sometimes called the modern Athens, believe that the United States is the lodestar of every medical man who wishes to advance his knowledge at the feet of brilliant doctors and at the most efficient clinics. By textile dermatitis I mean dermatitis caused by textiles, whether dyed or undyed; I have excluded other articles of wearing apparel, such as shoes, hatbands and nickel accessories. It is not from

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