ISONIAZID THERAPY IN CUTANEOUS TUBERCULOSIS AND SARCOIDOSIS

The rather unsatisfactory results of previous therapies in cutaneous tuberculosis led us to investigate the newer agents introduced for the treatment of this disease in other organs. Because tuberculoderms are uncommon, it is difficult to assemble individually any large series of such cases for an evaluation of their curative plans. Thus, for our guidance, we turned to the larger therapeutic studies done on the more prevalent pulmonary forms of this malady, and we selected isoniazid for trial. Since sarcoidosis presents clinical and histopathological findings similar to tuberculosis and since it is also difficult to handle, we included two cases of this somewhat rare entity in this study.

NEWER ANTITUBERCULOUS AGENTS  The recent Veterans Administration, Army, and Navy Conference on Chemotherapy in Tuberculosis¹ contributed much to our better understanding of the newer antituberculous agents. This group seems agreed that amithiozone (Tibione)^1a is too toxic to warrant further employment. This