ECZEMA DUE TO DYED CLOTHING

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Abstract
The clinical picture of the type of eczema to be described here is based on a number of cases studied during the past year in the dermatologic department of the Finsen Institute. The points which first suggested to us that we were dealing with eczema of unusual origin were the localization of the disorder, its almost exclusive occurrence in women and, finally, the information given by the patients. In a few of these cases the patients said of their own accord that they thought the cutaneous trouble was connected with some newly acquired clothing, as the symptoms appeared in direct chronological relation to its acquisition. Once our suspicion was aroused, we suceeded in other cases in establishing the etiology of a cutaneous disorder rather quickly from the history given by the patient. As already mentioned, this condition was noted almost exclusively in women, being established with certainty in

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