PRIMULA DERMATITIS

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During the last few years there have appeared in the literature many reports of cases of primrose dermatitis. In the dermatologist's experience a primrose dermatitis is not uncommon. The cases reported by Drs. Sweet,1Foerster2and Zeisler3were caused bythe hothouse or domesticated primrose flowers. The class of cases in which I have been especially interested and to which I desire to call the attention of the country practitioner in particular are caused by the flowers of the wild primrose,Primula farinosa, Linné, which grows wild throughout the southern part of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and northern Illinois. During the past six years, while in country practice, I have had occasion to treat many such cases and have divided them into three groups, acute, subacute with exacerbations each spring, and chronic. The acute cases come to the physician most commonly in April, May, June and July, when the

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