Abstract
July 13, 1920, M. K. B., a man, aged 32, came to me, with a dermatitis of his forearms and hands. It was a rather acute papulovesicular dermatitis which suggested external irritants as its origin. He had spent a day in the woods the week before, and the dermatitis had come on soon afterward. I concluded it was a dermatitis due to contact with irritating plants, probably poison ivy. I treated him with wet dressings of aluminum acetate solution, and he soon recovered. The same patient came to me again, July 6, of this year. He had a papulovesicular dermatitis of his forearms and hands, acute, but not intense, consisting for the most part of discrete inflammatory lesions. This time there was no history of contact with vegetation that might have caused the trouble. There seemed to be no doubt, however, that it was an external irritant dermatitis, and I
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