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The name epidemic exfoliative dermatitis has been given to an epidemic skin-disease which made its appearance in 1891 in England; 425 cases were collected in six institutions, besides sporadic cases in private houses.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)