Abstract

THE FOLLOWING report is of a patient with tuberculous ulcerations of the skin which failed to respond to 6 filtered units of roentgen rays in six months but completely healed in seven weeks with topical applications of promin® jelly. 1 REPORT OF A CASE History.— K. B., 2 a Negress aged 37, registered at the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital on April 10, 1945, presenting lesions of seven months' duration. She gave a history of having had rheumatism of the at 16 years. The first three pregnancies resulted successively in a stillbirth at nine, a miscarriage at six and a premature baby at seven months, which lived for seven months. She was treated for one year for syphilis at the New York Department of Health with injections of bismuth preparations and arsenicals from 1938 to 1939. She received twelve more hip

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