Physicians, especially gynecologists and obstetricians, are particularly liable to syphilitic infection of the fingers. Nurses, one would think, are in almost the same danger in their professional work; but in them we have seen fewer instances of this unfortunate accident. Case 1 is a typical and instructive instance:
CHANCRE OF THE FINGERS SIMULATING PARONYCHIA
Case 1.
—June 19, 1913, a professional nurse was referred to us for a continuance of her treatment. Toward the end of the previous February she acquired what appeared to be a pyogenic infection under the edge of the right thumb nail. Shortly afterward a similar infection showed itself under the free edge of the nail of the left index finger, presumably following a wound with a safety pin. Both nails were evulsed, May 7. In both, therefore, the suppurative process had lasted considerably more than two months. A characteristic papular eruption, and mucous patches in