The report of the following two cases is of considerable interest, as in the present literature no pruriginous lesions have as yet been attributed to syphilis, and because in both cases the finding of syphilis was incidental as the patients consulted me on account of local, edematous, evanescent, papular, wheal-like, extremely itchy lesions, appearing and disappearing, which disappeared entirely under antisyphilitic medication.
REPORT OF CASES
Case 1.—History.—
F. L. K., a girl, aged 5, fairly well developed, weighing 48 pounds, of light complexion, was referred to me in June, 1918, concerning a number of extremely itchy, urticarial lesions appearing on exposed surfaces. These lesions were from 4 to 6 mm. in diameter, round, sharply defined and felt hard to the touch; they were white and edematous, and were surrounded by an area of hyperemia of from about 0.5 to 1 cm. in width. When irritated by rubbing, these