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The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1958) 30, 341–345; doi:10.1038/jid.1958.63

Absorption of Antimalarial Drugs in Human Skin

Spectroscopic and Chemical Analysis in Epidermis and Corium1

This study was supported by a grant from Parke, Davis and Co., Detroit, Michigan and in part by U. S. Army grant No. DA-49-007-ND-154.

Bertram Shaffer MD, DSc(Med), Milton M Cahn MD and Edwin J Levy MD

1 From the Department of Dermatology (Dr. Donald M. Pillsbury, Director) University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Penna.

Received 27 December 1957.

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