Abstract
More than a century ago, Anstie found that alcohol is excreted through the skin into the sweat.1 This pathway is quantitatively insignificant compared to hepatic metabolism, yet it provides a window on ethanol metabolism in vivo. The transdermal dosimeter (TDD) is a device that allows an observer to spy on ethanol metabolism in the body by peering through the cutaneous window.
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Phillips, M. (1992). Measuring Alcohol Consumption by Transdermal Dosimetry. In: Litten, R.Z., Allen, J.P. (eds) Measuring Alcohol Consumption. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0357-5_9
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