Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to T Berther.
Following glomerulonephritis with subsequent anasarca and repeated penicillin treatments, generalized cutis laxa developed in a forty-year-old patient. Progressive signs of pulmonary emphysema appeared in the same period. Additionally, a monoclonal gammopathy was detected during extensive examination.
The reactivity of skin mast cells was tested in 86 probands. Introduction of various concentrations of codeine phosphate, either by intradermal injection or by prick test, produced an immediate wheal and flare response. Since the codeine skin test depends on both release of and response to histamine, it may be more useful than the conventional skin test with histamine for assessment of skin reactivity, and also for preliminary evaluation of anti-allergic agents in man.