Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-01-07 | Page 6 | Health Advice

HEALTH By Dr Morris Editor Journal of ih the lb American M Meal Mj cal eal A Association Hon More and more as we I 1 ie about the peculiar pecullar reactions the human being to various usual conditions and extraordinary cases appear For Instance the human b may be sensitive to drug stances and respond with q qu eruptions Some people have I ti invariably after aspirin s after iodine some after var varr laxatives which contain ph phe I m Cases have also been ropon of such sensitiveness to vat van local anesthetic substances w vh Wi arc are derivatives of cocaine or o salicylic acid i iA 4 A recent report tells of a who was given an injection new remedy for syphilis In Inder Inder der to make the injection pa paa paini a certain amount of local an antic anc ane tic had been combined remedy This local anea contained some somo salicylic acl acid Shortly after the injection patient developed a a. large e tion around the place at atthe atthe at atthe the injection had been made though he feared that the e tion was a part of his dise turned out after careful study 1 i he was sensitive to salicylic and that the eruption was a i i tion of the skin due to that Another interesting case easel that of a woman who deve devela r an intense itching eruption her scalp which lasted for foni sl than two years i q She had long hair which put up in a so-called so ps knot on top of her head holthe hol hold the hair in place with from 9 35 lacquered hairpins man many which touched the Inflamed i She also wore some of i I lacquered hairpins on the sl aid zid the head and at the points points' w these lacquered hairpins tou toua there had developed a all eruption I When the physicians be beo bec suspicious of the hairpins took some of the lacquer and i it in making a so-called so j test of the skin They found promptly that C patient reacted to the la lafrom lao lac from the pins Then she w WM J r. r to substitute bon bonel f pins for the steel ones Wit WIlT U Ill week after getting rid of oil Jr lacquer pins the itching st stow it J and the inflammation bega begs heal I