THE RELATIONSHIP OF EXCESS OF URIC ACID IN THE BLOOD TO ECZEMA AND ALLIED DERMATOSES

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The present study was undertaken for the purpose of shedding some light on the etiology of diseases of the skin of obscure origin. It was soon found that special interest was attached to the findings in eczema. For this reason, a special study was made of this disease, which comprises over one half of the analyses made.Cases of eczema constitute almost one third of the cases of diseases of the skin. This disease commonly causes keen distress by intolerable itching. Sleep is interfered with, the nervous system greatly disturbed and life often made almost unbearable. The causative factors in the production of eczema have for a century been obscure. All sorts of hypotheses have been advanced, advocated, discussed, and most of them have been discarded to make way for new suppositions. The Vienna School under the leadership of Hebra held that the dominant causes of eczema were local, whereas

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