10 Sep 2017. Reading time 9 minutes.

What does arsenic have to do with dermatology? Quite a bit, actually. As it turns out, arsenic was virtually everywhere in Europe during the 1800’s when dermatology was developing as a specialty. I always wondered why we spent so much time in residency studying arsenical keratoses, and had always just associated it with drinking contaminated well-water, because over 100 million […]