Abstract
Metallic dermatitis is occasionally observed in the practice of every dermatologist who attends the laboring people of various occupations, more especially by dermatologists who look after the skin eruptions of employees of large public utility and industrial plants. It has been my observation that the occurrence of a dermatitis occurring on the hands and faces of professional polishers and platers, caused by either the solvent or the salt of a metal, is of more frequent occurrence than the leading textbooks would infer. Nickel dermatitis has been a subject of rather common discussion in European literature ever since Blaschko,1in 1889, first called attention to the susceptibility of workers in industrial plants handling nickel. R. Prosser White2relates several incidents of a nickel dermatitis; also he quotes Rambousek in describing nickel rash as occurring in nickel platers and concludes that the disease is most probably caused by the action
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