CUTANEOUS SEQUELAE FOLLOWING TREATMENT OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA WITH INORGANIC ARSENIC

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Abstract
During the fall of 1950 two patients with classical arsenical eruptions were seen at the Skin and Cancer Unit of New York University Hospital. The first had an arsenical melanosis and the second a diffuse and pronounced arsenical pigmentation of the skin associated with numerous punctate keratoses on the neck, shoulders, palms, and soles. Both patients gave the history of having taken orally medicament containing Fowler's solution (solution of potassium arsenite) and potassium iodide for more than one year prior to admission for the alleviation of asthma. To our knowledge, a detailed report on this method of treatment has not been published, but a brief description has been recorded.1 The purpose of this paper is to call attention to the untoward effects attributable to this treatment in two cases. REPORT OF CASES Case 1. J. D., a white man, 58, was admitted on Sept. 5, 1950. He had had

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