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50 drugs may possibly do good in certain cases, but as I have seen arsenic, at least, do harm in a score of cases for every one in which I have seen it do good, I have no hesitancy in dispensing with their use in treating eczema in infants and young children. Arsenic should certain!}- never be given in the acute eczema of childhood nor during the exacerbations of the chronic form.