Abstract
To the Editor:— I read with keen interest a communication toThe Journal, Nov. 29, 1941, page 1879, by Frank B. Queen, M.D., Major, M. C., U. S. Army, and Tom Stander, M.D., Major, M. C., U. S. Army, in which they report a case of severe generalized hypersensitivity to tear gas (CN) considered to be idiopathic. Of particular interest in the case is the fact that once before the patient had, on transient exposure by passing through a cloud of tear gas during a course of instruction while in the National Guard, experienced itching of the skin which, though remembered seventeen years after the event, was not incapacitating. Here at Edgewood Arsenal, the center of the Chemical Warfare Service, we have observed that all persons are sensitive to chemical agents when exposed to their effect for the first time. A certain degree of individual variation in sensitivity does occur
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