Burns and their treatment : including dermatitis from high explosives / J.M.H. MacLeod.

  • MacLeod, J. M. H. (John MacLeod Hendrie), 1870-1954.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Burns and their treatment : including dermatitis from high explosives / J.M.H. MacLeod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    up are followed by a coarse exfoliation. The derma- titis is associated with intense itching. The powder has to be moistened and rubbed up into a paste by certain of the workers, who are liable, in consequence, to a dermatitis of the hands of the dysidrotic type, which may be accompanied by corrosive ulcers about the tips of the fingers and destructive changes in the neighbourhood. On ceasing to work with the irritant, the dermatitis heals rapidly under mild antiseptic applications, such as those employed in the treatment of dermatitis | ‘from trinitrotoluene. Lyddite (Picrie Acid).—Lyddite, which is made from picrate of potash, has an irritating action on the skin from the picric acid it contains, and gives rise to an acute form of dermatitis very similar to that caused by trinitrotoluene. As a rule it is especially marked on the hands and forearms and is accom- panied by a canary-yellow or greenish staining of the skin. Like tetryl it produces no constitutional symptoms, and its treatment is similar. Hexa - Nitro - Diphenyl - Amine.—This explosive is closely related to aurantia, an orange-coloured, basic aniline dye used in dyeing leather. It is responsible for a form of dermatitis which was met with first in this country in connection with the air-raids in June, 1917, when a number of cases occurred as the result of handling a powder, believed to be a mixture of this substance and trinitrotoluene, which was contained in the high explosive bombs dropped in these raids.
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