Daftar Isi: Protein Sensitization in Eczema: Report of Seventy-Eight Cases

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In reporting this series of cases, I especially wish to call attention to a particular phase of the clinical applicability of protein sensitization which is commanding wide interest and gaining rapidly in importance. Our present knowledge of the etiology and specific treatment of eczema is so vague, that any procedure indicating a clearer understanding of this condition is indeed worthy of special note.In reviewing the literature on this subject, one is impressed by the variance of opinion, and results obtained. Blackfan,1using both the cutaneous and the intradermal method of testing, obtained a positive reaction to proteins in twenty-two of twenty-seven patients with eczema; Strickler and Goldberg2obtained positive reactions in six of thirteen cases tested, but these observers used only fourteen proteins and did not consider a reaction as positive unless it persisted for forty-eight hours, thus lowering the percentage of positive cases; White,3using