The Use of ACTH and Cortisone in Dermatology

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Abstract
PROBABLY the most important recent development in dermatologic therapy has been the availability of adrenocorticotrophic hormone and cortisone. With the startling announcements in the lay press of their remarkable curative powers, patients with acute or chronic dermatoses began requesting their therapeutic trial. These drugs, even in ointment form, are alleged in newspaper and magazine accounts to have cured almost all cutaneous eruptions, from simple eczema to pemphigus.Medical literature has, fortunately, been more conservative. Various reports have shown how valuable Cooperative work between dermatologists and internists has been in properly evaluating new drugs, and as a result definite progress has . . .