Excerpt from The Practical Medicine Series, Vol. 9 of 10: Skin and Venereal Diseases, Miscellaneous Topics

A review of the literature on cutaneous medicine for the year shows very little diminution in its volume owing to the activities of the war. Syphilis and the venereal diseases have been well studied in the armies in the field, and emergency treatment has been devised, while prophy lactic measures have been given trial on a large scale. Attention has been called to the possible spread of lep rosy due to contact of soldiers in the fields with the dis ease where it is endemic. Trench fighting, under the conditions imposed during cold weather, has produced numerous cases of erythema and gangrene of the feet, similar to frost-bite, due in these instances to temperature above the freezing point.

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