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...concerns that manufacture surgical adhesive tape paid practically no attention to the dermatitis which their products occasionally cause until Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U.S. Public Health Service ordered an investigation. Dr. Cumming appointed Dr. Louis Schwartz of his own staff to do the work and Professor Samuel Mortimor Peck, Manhattan dermatologist, to help. They published their report last week...
...Schwartz and Peck first queried the most revered pharmaceutical chemist in the country, Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, head of Johnson & Johnson's laboratories at New Brunswick, N. J. since 1889. Mr. Kilmer told them that, as the result of his investigations, he considered the ingredients of adhesive tape not irritating as such; that the skin secretions are retained under the moisture-repellent coating with a resultant maceration of the epidermis. This, rather than idiosyncrasy, said Mr. Kilmer, is the most frequent cause of the irritation...
...Schwartz and Peck found the manufacturers of adhesive tape as secretive about the ingredients and methods of manufacture as they are about the yearly yardage and dollar value of their plaster. Eventually the following list of ingredients became clear: rubber, rosin. "Burgundy" pitch, olibanum, beeswax, zinc oxide, anhydrous lanolin, starch, orris root...
Pointing a reproving finger at adhesive tape manufacturers, the Schwartz-Peck report to Surgeon General Gumming concludes: "Research in adhesive manufacture should make it possible to substitute non-irritating types of rosins and rubber for the present types...
Edward Hickling Bradford Fellowship: Henry G. Schwartz, Boston, (M.D. Johns Hopkins...