Vitamin B Complex as a Deterrent to Skin Irritation

Skin irritation and corrosion.

The Vitamin B Complex

died) ; and that Michael made excellent attempts to isolate the antiscorbutic principle early in the eighteenth century. Further, Lunin (1881) clearly recognized that small quantities of unknown substances were essential to life, and Pekelharing (1905) demonstrated the existence of diseases due to dietary deficiency. Yet it was Hopkins (1912) who first realized the full significance of vitamins...

Khaki Drill and Skin Irritation

Sir,?The following facts may possibly be of interest to your readers and of use in cases similar to my own. For several years I suffered from an irritating skin disease which, without pathological examination of scrapings, was diagnosed variously as " tinea" or "lichen." Various doctors prescribed various ointments ?chrysarobin, benzoic, resorcin, salicylic, etc., etc., and iodine liniment, all...

Subgroup 2 . Skin Irritation / Corrosion

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DEET as a feeding deterrent

The insect repellent N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide (DEET), is a multimodal compound that acts as a spatial repellent as well as an irritant (contact repellent), thus being perceived by the insect's olfactory and gustatory systems as an odorant and a tastant, respectively. Soon after DEET was developed, almost 6 decades ago, it was reported that it reduced mosquito feeding on blood mixed with th...