Clam digger's dermatitis; schistosome dermatitis from sea water.

RECENTLY hard clams in the salt water of the Long Island Sound area have come to our attention. The eruption is limited to those parts of the skin previously immersed in water. "Arming" for hard clams is done in shallow water at low tide during the warm months, April through October. The "armer" usually lies across a rowboat, stirs up the mud with his hands, and scoops in the clams. Most "baymen" have learned by experience to wear protective clothing consisting of rubber gloves and three or four pairs of nylon stockings to cover both upper extremities from wrists to shoulders. If protective clothing is not worn, an eruption appears upon the immersed portion of their skins. REPORT OF A TYPICAL CASE W. D., a young man, "armed" hard clams in Cold Spring Harbor, a salt-water tributary of Long Island Sound, during the week of Aug. 20, 1951. He lay