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Plants and the skin /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovell, C. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993.
Subjects:
Dermatitis, Contact > etiology.
Plants, Toxic.
Table of Contents:
  • Individual at risk
  • Occupational exposure to plants / R.J.G. Rycroft
  • Plant products in perfumes and cosmetics / I.R. White
  • Identification of plants / M.E. Hansen
  • Basics of plant taxonomy and nomenclature
  • Features used in plant identification
  • Collection of material for identification
  • Identification of plants
  • Urticaria due to plants
  • Introduction
  • Urticaria due to injection of toxins
  • Immunological contact urticaria
  • Irritant plants
  • Mechanical irritants
  • Chemical irritants
  • Phytophototoxic reactions
  • Introduction
  • Naturally occurring psoralems and other plant photosensitizers and their mode of action / B.E. Johnson
  • Clinical features
  • Plants which cause phototoxic reactions
  • Allergic contact dermatitis due to plants
  • Mechanisms of allergic contact dermatitis
  • Patch testing with plants and plant allergens
  • Preparation of plant extracts / M.G. Rowan
  • Poison ivy and poison oak dermatitis / C. Dannaker & H.I. Maibach
  • Other plant families causing allergic contact dermatitis
  • Allergenic conifers
  • Allergenic hardwoods.
  • (cont) Epilogue
  • Therapeutic uses of some plant products in dermatology.