Scleroderma as a manifestation of chronic arsenic poisoning was discussed in a recent issue of The Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology.1 Four consecutive cases were cited, three of the diffuse variety and one of the localized type, in which arsenic was demonstrated in the urine. The following is the fifth case of the series.
REPORT OF A CASE
History.—
F. W. (No. 299872), in the outpatient department of the Massachusetts General Hospital, was a housewife of Russian Jewish extraction who had lived in Boston the past thirteen years. She was 34 years old, and up to the time of her present illness, which began four years ago, she had always enjoyed good health. Her husband and four children were living and well; there had been no miscarriages. She had never engaged in any occupation outside of her own housework, and so far as she knew, had never used any