TREATMENT OF ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME EXSUDATIVUM WITH SULFANILAMIDE

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It is still unsettled whether the cause of erythema multiforme exsudativum is a toxemia or a microbic infection. The fact that in some cases reported in the literature streptococci have been suspected as the cause of this disease prompted me to try using sulfanilamide in a case of erythema multiforme which came under my observation. REPORT OF CASE R. W., a boy aged 14, was first seen by me on June 23, 1938. He stated that on June 21 he went swimming in a river. The following day he complained to his mother of general malaise, and on June 23 the eruption appeared. This consisted of flat-topped, disk-shaped papules, with a distinctly elevated and well defined marginal band; in some places these coalesced to form large circinate patches. They were pink or red and involved the face, neck, chest, back, buttocks, arms and legs. The oral mucosa was not

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