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MANHATTAN DERMATOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Cases Abstracted from Regular Meetings of 1923 and 1924Oscar L. Levin, M.D., Chairman
Papular Syphiloderm. Presented by Dr. Rosen.
A woman, colored, aged 24, with a generalized papular syphilitic eruption, was admitted to the Vanderbilt Clinic, Sept. 14, 1923. Associated with this syphilitic infection, the patient had an active gonorrhea. The patient was given arsphenamin intravenously and injections of mercuric salicylate intramuscularly. After the sixth intravenous injection, she developed a generalized erythema. There were also slight constitutional symptoms, fever, headache and malaise.Examination revealed a generalized involvement with areas of redness and an intense pigmentation of the skin in the spots that the syphilitic papular eruption involved, and a depigmented ring around each of the pigmented lesions.
DISCUSSION
All agreed with the diagnosis as presented.
Multiple Benign Cystic Epithelioma. Presented by Dr. Gilmour.
C. L., a woman, aged 27, married, born in this country, had tumors