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Abnormal color (yellow jaun dice icterus). Bile in skin; many.causes of jaun dice, including occupational causes, catarrh, cancer. Abnormal color (bronze). Abnormal color (coffee color). Many causes, such as suprarenal disease, arsenic, pellagra. Endocarditis. Abnormal color (yellow). Carotinoid. Abnormal color (yellow). Picric acid. From, the eating of excessive quantities of carrots, squash, oranges. Picric acid and picrates. Abnormal color (orange). Tetryl. Munition materials. Abnormal color (green).' Abnormal color (bluish-green streak or blotches). Abnormal color (hectic flushed cheeks). Either from sweat from copper content, or external contact with fine copper. Powder burns or ground-in coal dust; usually limited to miners, and chiefly coal miners. Heart disease or tuberculosis. Abnormal color (red skin). Abnormal color (leucoderma). - Impending sunstroke, high blood pressure; may be natural for some types or races. May be caused by external con tact with certain rubber anti oxidants. Monobenzyl ether of hydroquinone. Abnormal color (absence of normal skin sheen in Ne gro). May be caused by any organic disease. Depends upon exact cause, such as carbon tetrachloride. R. M. I. May be universal, diffused, or localized. R. M. I. May resemble Addison's disease or nicotinic acid deficiency ex cept for distribution of latter. R. M. I. Harmless; rapidly disappears on correcting diet; resembles jaun dice. Usually limited to point of con tact. Discolored area limited to contact points; may be associated with dermatitis. Clinically not important; at times may be washed away. Not ordinarily disabling, al though previous injury may have been disabling. Represents localized capillary dilatation. R. M. I. Frequently from nonoccupational causes; vitiligo; may be related to avitaminoses. In reflected light, normal skin sheen almost invariably present in absence of organic disease. In the young, commonly ca tarrhal; in the middle aged, usu ally gall bladder disease; in the old, usually cancer. Important if extensive and per sistent. Unrelated to work as cause. Most often found on palms and soles and around nose; unlike jaundice, does not involve eyes. May be associated with dermati tis;. some picrates used in the treatment of bums may both discolor skin and induce derma titis. Sometimes removed by washing. Hair may turn either green or blue; disturbing to workers, particularly women. May resemble chlorosis in ap pearance. In tuberculosis occurs only in far advanced state. More discern ible in men. May indicate fever; may be localized as on head, cheeks, or hands. More prominent in Negroes and other dark races; loss of pig ment fairly readily spontane ously replaced in some condi tions. A possible test for malingering in the Negro. (continued) VISIBLE MABKS OF OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES -3