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Alexander A. Fisher, MD
New York University Post-Graduate Medical School New York

JAMA. 1970;212(2):320.

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To the Editor.—

The term "mace" refers to such disparate objects as relatively new as tear gas, as old as nutmeg spice, as medieval as a spiked club, and as universal as a "swindle." All these diverse types of mace are curiously related in more than name.

Chemical Mace, referring to tear gas, is an acronym derived from the chemicals Methylchloroform chloroACEtophenone. The authors of the recent article,¹ "Contact Dermatitis Due to 1-Chloroacetophenone and Chemical Mace," state that "no documented reports of allergic contact dermatitis to this compound ( chloroacetophenone) were found in the literature." However, it must be pointed out that such reports have been appearing rather regularly throughout the past three decades.^2-7

As to mace, the aromatic spice consisting of the dried external covering of the fruit of the tropical nutmeg tree, it should be noted that the ingestion of 5 to 15 mg . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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