RT Journal
A1 MONTGOMERY DW, CULVER GD
T1 CHancre of the fingers
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD January 18
VO 72
IS 3
SP 180
OP 181
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030026009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030026009
AB 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