Abstract
P. H., a white man, aged 39, an aviator, complained of a dermatitis of the left index and middle fingers of six weeks' duration and of the left upper lip of four weeks' duration. Two months before, he had been in a hospital for a period of six months because of fracture and amputation of one thigh. He stated that there was no personal or family history of allergy. The eruption was pruritic. It consisted of pinpoint to pinhead size vesicular and scaling lesions on an erythematous base. The borders were ill defined and gradually faded into the normal skin. Wet dressings of solution of aluminum acetate were prescribed for two days, and this was followed by a single fractional dose of superficial x-ray irradiation and zinc ointment U. S. P. Two weeks later the eruption on the fingers was greatly improved but that on the lip remained unchanged. In
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