Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — Anilin Poisoning From Hair Dyes. [ARTICLE]

Anilin Poisoning From Hair Dyes.

A case of chronic anllln poisoning, manifesting all of the typical symptoms, namely, vertigo, gastritis, diplopia, asthenia and exfoliated dermatitis, Is reported by Thompson. The cause of the poisoning‘was a French hair dye called “Goute Agouti.? The type of anilin was paraphenophendlamln, 2 per ceht; hydrogen peroxide, 1 7C per cent, and alcohol, 28 per cent. -Thompson points out that the menace of anilin hair dyes has not yet suffi•clently been emphasized to be appreciated generally by the medical profession. The fact that personal susceptibility varies as much as in the dhse of poisoning, for example, from Rhus toxicodendron, only makes it mpre difficult always to recognize such cases. It is well to be suspicious of artificial Titian red hair and all the darker shades up to jet black.