TY  - JOUR
T1  - ``hypersensitivity to mercurochrome shown by the patch test''
AU  - Cleveland DH
Y1  - 1933/05/01
N1  - 10.1001/archderm.1933.01450040842015
JO  - Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
SP  - 833
EP  - 833
VL  - 27
IS  - 5
N2  - To the Editor:—In their paper entitled ``Hypersensitivity to Mercurochrome Shown by the Patch Test" (Arch. Dermat. & Syph.27:408 [March] 1933) Drs. Pascher and Silverberg make mention of a few cases in the literature on dermatitis attributed to mercurochrome-220 soluble. In this connection they refer to a paper of mine (Canad. M. A. J.24:272, 1931).I wish to point out that my paper did not deal with dermatitis produced locally by contact with mercurochrome. The title of the paper was ``Mercurialism from the External Use of Mercurochrome-220 Soluble." The case I described was one in which mercurialism developed in the patient, a new-born infant, by the absorption of 4 per cent mercurochrome applied for twelve days over a considerable area of the neck and upper part of the thorax. The classic symptoms of stomatitis, gastro-enteritis and renal irritation were present, and while a scarlatiniform erup
SN  - 0096-6029
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archderm.1933.01450040842015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1933.01450040842015
ER  -