Klarinet Archive - Posting 000971.txt from 1999/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More medical things
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:49:46 -0500

At 06:02 PM 2/25/99 -1300, Dan Leeson wrote:
>A few days ago I posted on a medical journal called "CUTIS" which appears
>to be devoted to skin disease issues. Volume 4 of that journal (Vol. 62,
>Oct. 1998) has, on p. 167, several issues directly related to clarinet
>players. One has to do with contact dermatitis from coming in contact
>with rare woods, and dermatitis from reeds. Pretty disgusting pictures
>is you are not into skin diseases.
>
I knew a bass clarinet player in college who had the problem with reeds.
She played on Plasticover reeds and was OK. The newer synthetics like
Fibracell and Legere should help, too.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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