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Article: RESEARCH REVIEW - SKIN PROBLEMS: ARE TEXTILES THE CAUSE?
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- Medical Textiles
- Article date:
- March 1, 1990
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One of the papers presented at the International Man-made Fibres Congress at Dornbirn, Austria, was entitled The compatibility of textiles and skin ailments'; the author was Professor D.P. Hornstein, of the University Clinic for Dermatology at Erlangen, West Germany.
In his introduction, after noting the lack of mutual information between the textile and medical professions, especially relating to dermatology, Prof Hornstein said that since clothes formed a kind of second skin' to the body, besides their beneficial effects there could also be untoward effects. These could be exogenous or endogenous; the former were caused by chemical or physical agents while the ...